>Look, I'm not saying that Microsoft has done a good job of marketing VFP over the years. They haven't.
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>But I am tired of the claim that Microsoft bought FoxPro just to kill it. As I said, if that was their plan, they executed it exceptionally poorly.
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>Tamar

It's obvious they didn't intend to kill it immediately. Honestly I can't fathom WHAT their intent was because it makes absolutely no sense to me the way it was handled over the years.

They did stuff the fox in a closet though - only developers who had used previous versions or who needed DBF access were allowed to peek in the closet.