> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Ted Roche > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Another life after VFP thread? > st. New rant begins here - > > Once MS started putting silly, meaningless phrases in their license, > it was obvious they were not interested in doing business with people > who wanted to use their product. Imagine your corporate attorney > asking you "Did you work around any technical limitations in the > software in the course of developing this application?" How could you > answer? Did you make a cursor Read/Write? Did you hack an FRX to do > things the Report Writer doesn't let you do? Did you create a view > that can't be loaded in the View Designer? It's a proposterous > standard to be held to, and it makes it clear that MS thinks they can > control the minutia of how their software is used. I cannot risk > spending my time and money in court debating what the EULA means in a > court of law. If Microsoft cannot write a license I can clearly > understand and agree to, I cannot in good conscience use their > product. Time to move on. > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com >
Excellent post Ted! I wrote my first program in FORTRAN 35 years ago. I can still code in FORTRAN if I want to and on any number of operating systems. The same goes for COBOL and Basic. You picked a tool and it was all about the applications that you write for your customers to make a living. Or you had a job where they used a particular hardware vendor and you wrote programs in whatever language came with the machine. The focus was on the application and the work it performed. With Microsoft it seems that it's all about the tool - VFP, .NET, Office, Vista. They have changed the focus from how the tools are used to the tools themselves; and have made a pretty good business selling products to the application developers and licenses to companies that use their tools. How many times have we heard that Microsoft can't justify putting any more effort into VFP because there is no return on the investment. So I guess they take their marbles and go home. It stinks because in my 35 years of programming I have never seen a language that is more loved and used by its developers to make creative applications that do just about everything. I am in no way demeaning all of the accomplishments and advancements in the computer industry that Microsoft has made. They have made it possible for me to make a decent living. Having said all that, I totally agree with Ted that it is time to move on and put your efforts and faith into a language and not a vendor. Moving on for me means that I am learning a new language and when I am ready, I will start selling applications that are not written in VFP. The first customer that recognizes that I have changed development languages will get a free copy of Visual Studio! Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/x-pkcs7-signature --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
