Don,

>I just heard that Microsoft is allowing Visual Foxpro to be Open Source. Not sure if this is fact or a rumor of some sort but I think it's great and back to unix / linux we go.....

Nope. The core EXE code is NOT being released, only the Sedna add-ons.

>Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's article of March 19th.... sorry don't have the link to the actual....

It has already been discussed here -- sloppy article from an author who assumed the wrong thing from the facts he had.