>>How is it any different than any other 3rd party tool for dotnet like Infragistics or Telerik or the frameworks which have to release a new version for every new version of .net?
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>>Once they get a product out there ready for production and if they make some sales they may be able to invest more time and resources into it in order to make it a renewable product.
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>MS with its immense resources didn't maintain vfp as a viable language due to sagging sales. What makes you think that a small company will have the resources to bring this to market professionally with a handful of sbuscribers. they'll need 10's of thousands to buy into it which probably won't happen. Hell, there are people who argue about the viability of vfp vs .net who are still using vfp 6 and 7.
It depends on if the thousands who are using VFP illegally will invest in the tool or not. If it can't be had for free, then perhaps they will.
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