Bill Arnold wrote: > I think that depends on how you look at how MS handled the whole > VFP-affair. The way I see it, they lured people into investing in their > language product KNOWING they weren't going to market the product, thus > removing the usefulness of the very product they were selling as a > useful tool. That's underhanded at least, illegal at most. >
Who's to say they didn't market it? Sure, they didn't market it well, but you can't say they didn't market it. They had it advertised on their website; some publications mentioned it; Jim Eddins was a major seller of it; etc. Underhanded or at least short-sighted, but definitely not illegal...but hey, IANAL. > Put it this way: if you would have known about MS's designs for VFP in > the beginning, would you or anyone else have bought into it then? > We all must know that a day will come where our tool of choice is no longer supported/offered, especially in the case of a commercial vendor like M$. Open Source seems to beat that rap. Look at all those poor bastards who banked on PeopleSoft only to watch Oracle buy them and put their stuff in maintenance mode. I know there was talk of lawsuits if Oracle dropped support for PS altogether, but with maintenance mode (similar to the 2015 date by M$ for VFP), they avoid such legal headache and still get what they wanted....control/suppression/obsolescence....legally. > Fortunately we've got some number of years, maybe even a decade, before > 'showtime'. A whole lot can happen between now and then. > Very true. And Guineu might be the next coming of Christ for the VFP faithful. ;-) -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" _______________________________________________ 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.
