>>> 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...

Something I've been wondering about -- how about open-sourcing Fox26U? It would be interesting to see how the base grew differently as it was updated.