>>>> What *would* be nice to see is Micro$oft do an experiment with VFP by
>>>> making it open source. If they ever wanted to give it a shot VFP would
>>>> be a good one to try it on because of how devoted the VFP community is.
>>
>>Highly unlikely, because too many VFP things made it into other products...
>>
>>Markus
>
>hmmmm...what do you mean by 'other products' ??

ADO (not ADO.NET) was Fox's cursor engine wrapped in a COM object. There were also rumors that Rushmore code made it into Jet and possibly SQL Server. You gotta think that Calvin at least peeks at VFP code, if he doesn't port it, when working on LINQ.