On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Bill Arnold < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen, > > I understand that you don't understand, but what I don't understand is > the MS-lackey role you're playing. MS doesn't give a hoot about us, they > just managed to painted themselves into a corner with VFP. Evidentially > MS's plan all along was to buy out and kill VFP, but the VFP team > delivered a great product, which flew right in the face of Bill Gates' > plan to build around Basic from day 1. The whole .NET/CLR thing brought > this to a head because at that time MS was forced to finally choose > between the Basic and xBase paradigms because .NET had to go one way or > the other. The decision was pre-ordained and Basic got the nod and VFP > the boot. > -------------------------------------------------------- Wow. Can I have some of your kool aid? I don't get near the visions from mine. I am just curious. Do you think that at say NASA various teams have the same concept that the GOVERNMENT, in their case, is against them and that all other projects are just overkill and over spending? I don't think that your vision of reality about .net and xBase is at all close to what if any confrontation ever happened. Sorry but your way off base and just repeating your visions over and over isn't going to make them true, nor instigate a reversal of the defacto that M$ engineers are creating today. > > MS isn't on our side, unless of course we get into their fold and > re-write for .NET. MS's latest/last move with VFP have been crafted for > one reason: to keep the company from being sued by people like me who > bought into their sales pitch when they assimilated VFP and invested > heavily in the FoxPro product development system - only to discover > years (and many hundreds of thousands of dollars) later that they had an > ulterior motive all along. Had they been honest and up-front about their > plan, we wouldn't be in the position we're in today. > ------------------------------------- Your investment in FoxPro. Can you sue your investment broker because the market made a change and what was a good investment in the 90s is way off base in the late 2000s ? If you can I need their name! > > What they did, in my mind, was totally underhanded but typical behavior. > It is with much irony that I admire Bill Gates, but I certainly do not > like and will not accept being one of his victims. > -------------- Please grow up and act like an adult instead of a wet nosed kid just out of college. Your still shouting about Gates and he has been out of the pilots seat for years and going to set fully out of the company in months. > > You want to promote MS, fine, but from my point of view you don't belong > here. > ------------------------------------ Nope, sorry but your missing the point. Business and revenue are important, wouldn't you agree? You have to be flexible to prosper. You have to overcome "this is what I have been doing for the past x years" with a "how will I be more financially secure over the next 5 years." I don't say choose X or Y as the only path. I do say that I have had success with my choices and if your interested you can find out more. The limits of xBase are huge, the reality of security in the digital age is present. How you deal with it is up to you. Just sitting at the corner table of the donut shop remembering the old days is the view you seem to present. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ 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.
