On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Bill Arnold wrote:
> I'm talking about their designs, their intent, which may very well
> have
> been to deceive, and there is law that covers fraud that might fit.
> IANAL either, but I believe law is based on principles and MS mgmt's
> behavior re VFP has been unprincipled, therefore there must be some
> connection between what happened and the law.
Here's a quote from Tamar Granor in FoxPro Advisor's June 1996 edition:
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I've been using Fox products since 1988. In that time, there have
been three major (and countless minor) revisions. The code I write
now looks very little like the code I wrote in '88. In the same
period, there have been many times when the future of FoxPro itself
was in doubt. First, there was the Ashton-Tate lawsuit, then
Microsoft's purchase of Fox, then poor marketing by Microsoft, and
now, rumors that Visual FoxPro 4 will be the last version. Each time,
plenty of people were ready to declare FoxPro dead.
[snip]
Microsoft has stated clearly that VFP 4 will not be the last version;
there'll be at least one more after that. That's probably two years
out (my estimate, not Microsoft's). No one knows what'll happen after
that, and anyone who claims to is making it up. The software industry
changes too fast.
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http://my.advisor.com/Articles.nsf/aid/GRANT39
So way back in 1996 the uncertainty of VFP's future was being
discussed by one of the most respected Fox folk around. Do you really
think that you would have a chance in hell in any courtroom of
convincing a judge or jury that you had no reasonable warning that
VFP might not be supported past 2014 back then????
-- Ed Leafe
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