>>Yet you continue to use MS products every single day.. You're hypocritical towards your
>>hatred of Microsoft - if you hate them so much quit complaining an get Linux , open office.
>>etc)

I don't mind the above "hypocracy" as much - but your attempt to create an entire new ecosystem from ground up on OS principles has a hubris smell for me.
If you had targeted an xBase language including table support in any of the GNU-C, Java or LLVM environments as OS effort, it might have looked less ridicolous - not saying that to put you down, but because it is more fitting to MY mental picture than "unlikely" or other more PC wordage.

>I learned in July, 2012, about some comments Richard Stallman made about perverse sexual practices that he thought should be legalized. As a result, I have this issue with the FSF and GNU as well. And the Linux kernel in general.

I had not asked about that, because I anticipated/feared an answer on issues not related to programming, but linked to your other views.
Or to take a different angle: why do you put down the effort of Linus and a myriad of programmers because of a single persons view how sex and law should be changed ?

>I was within days of committing myself to completing the HURD kernel (the GNU-based kernel which would replace Linux, which already works, but is buggy -- I was going to devote my time and talents to removing the bugs, and completing the kernel design and implementation, and to also create a driver model translator which would allow the existing open-source Linux drivers to be ported to HURD.

Which would have been in my view the best way if you think you have talents in such areas.

>I stopped all of this because of what I learned about Stallman).
>In short, there is no place to turn in computers which are not in some way tainted by corporate greed, by perverse lusts of men, and so on.

If you extend the basic axioms of wishing for an "untainted" system, you would have to add a selective barrier even to those considering to work on your project: Stallman himself clearly would not be allowed to work on your project based on the above ? And where is the line that divides acceptable behaviour from behaviour to get one expelled and needing to fork your stuff ? (And will the OS license later grow a morals clause, if your untainted code was forked by perverse men often enough?)

>So I have chosen the path of least resistance to get my products completed, which are Visual FreePro, and Exodus.

In my take on things you have set up house rules making it unlikely to succeed in any way getting a system out which will attract more than three user digits, if you get someting workable out of the door at all.

>Those two will free us from any other ties toward corporate greed, and profit motives, and perverse lusts of men. Visual FreePro is not just a replacement for Visual FoxPro. It is closer to an alternative to Java or .NET, one with its own GNU Compiler-like toolchain, called RDC (the Rapid Development Compiler framework).

Again: even if you kept your dev ranks "corruption free" even if adding one or two, as soon as you would have success, those will jump aboard in some way.

>What I am doing with these projects is trying to set men free from the bondage which exists. The only way I know to get there is to move. And, without significant help from others, I cannot do it in an isolated fashion, but I must use what's available. If I had others helping me, we could do it using some other platform, because the slowness of development in such a case would be offset by the additional men working on it.

House rules setting you up for failure

>Come with me, Victor. Help me complete Visual FreePro, and to finish the Exodus drivers my OS is missing today. Help break ourselves free from the grip of these tyrannical, utterly evil, for-profit-only, corporations.
>Anyone ... please come and help me complete these alternative products, which are copyleft-protected open-source, meaning they will always remain open and free with the source code available for anyone to download.

I would not go within a mile of a project where sexual habits, opinions about sex or religious views are reason not to use existing OS work or workers.

my 0.0002€

thomas