>>But it was already done at least twice (eTecnologia and Christof), even though these projects weren't exactly finished - but, hey, these were small outfits or a single person. Microsoft could have done the same - they could just save as much money on lawyers or advertising in a day and invest some manpower into development instead. They just didn't want to do it.
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>That could/would have belongs to the past
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>I think the source code of vfp is such a mess that they never considered it

Which explains why they never considered publishing the source for Windows either.