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Migrate from FoxPro to .NET Add
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05/07/2005 17:15:23
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Visual FoxPro and .NET
Environment versions
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01029143
Message ID:
01029222
Views:
12
>>>Having this add constantly blinking at me in this forum is a bit annoying. What I find reprehensible and possibly illegal depending on a particular application's licening agreement is the following bullet on that web-site:
>>>
>>>* Reverse engineering FoxPro code to generate system specification
>>>
>>>Anyone else see a problem with that statement? This can be found at http://www.diaspark.com/migration/
>>
>>I was going to complain about that ad, but then didn't want to be accused again of telling people what they can say/do.
>>
>>I'd definitely have a problem with someone taking MY FP/VFP ***CODE***, as code or APP or EXE, and reverse engineering it.
>>Couldn't argue with replicating how they SEE the application outwardly, but code and table structures has a stench of thievery to me.
>
>Same here. I am not complaining about the purpose of the ad or the use of .Net either. I have a HUGE problem with the skullduggery of stealing someone's code to make your job easier to convert it under another dev tool.

I did'nt see that before reading about it here. Did anybody contact them to have more informations about their migration plans.

To me "Reverse engineering FoxPro code" looks illegal. Perhaps they'd have an explanation.
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