On 4/4/07, john harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think MS making the entire source code available would be a good thing for > us, but I can't really see too much of an argument for MS doing it, from > their perspective. Maybe the power brokers at MS believe it is such a > non-factor that giving it to the OS community would make them look good.
I think the risks would outweigh any benefit. MS does not let internally developed source code out. Little stuff like VBA scripts, Fox code an special projects, like their Installer, were made for release. VFP source is stuff that came from Fox Software, after all, probably still has some hacks from being compiled in Watcom C back in the days, and likely has a lot of interesting stuff about how COM and ODBC and OLE are implemented internally. I don't think that is stuff they would be inclined to give away without a warrent. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ 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.
