Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated...



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>Why is a great application development language is being shelved by greedy Marketing Types ?
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>Maybe a better question is.... what has M$$$$ done to enable the Development Community without expecting huge amounts of money from Development's Customers ?
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>I remember (years ago... ya old guy here) a rising software company Fox Software that came out with exactly that.... a development environment that enabled programming types (you and I) to create what our customers actually wanted. Alot has changed over the years and as far as software goes.... so be it. But when you eliminate a prefectly good product just to assure you sell another just doesn't make any sense !
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>Planned Obsolescents is nothing more then a greedy/Lazy man's plan. I've managed to extended my employment within the IT industry with Visual Foxpro and plan on keeping it going as best as I can. I hope the day will come that M$$$$ finally get's off the pot or actually $$###@@@@@.... then the very cleaver Linux community will port this language to one of it's mainstays and life will be good again.
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>Don