>>Another one and seemed longer
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>>FoxPro users petition to keep database language alive
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>>http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9015920&intsrc=hm_list
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>This is a really good article. My compliments go to the journalist. And there's even some new news. E.g. there's a new name, Jay Roxe being the Visual Studio Product Manager, who now speaks on behalf of. So, YAG is now out of sight, with regard to the media?
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>The two reasons mentioned are:
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>1) "As far as forming a partnership with a third party is concerned, we’ve heard from a number of large FoxPro customers that this would make it impossible for them to continue to use FoxPro since it would no longer be from an approved vendor."
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>2) "For Microsoft to continue to evolve the FoxPro base, we would need to look at creating a 64-bit development environment, and that would involve an almost complete rewrite of the core product."
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>The first one is really quite new. (Yes, I know YAG also mentioned it some days ago.) And it's really quite stupid also. Not to say very stupid.
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>The second one is better known, but it is also debatable.

Very nice article, and I completely agree with your assessment of the 1st excuse. The very idea, that continuing VFP development through partnership is worse for customers than outright stop, insults readers intelligence.