>>>>>It's wrong. Flatly wrong. It's an agenda, not a service response.
>>>Almost everybody here would have known....
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>>It is why I hate Microsoft, and everything they stand for.
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>>I cannot wait until I get Visual FreePro completed, and not just for xbase code, but it will also compile C code as well. The day I get it working I will migrate entirely to my own toolset, and then to my own OS as quickly as possible after that even if it's generic as all get out and I have to run it on a Pentium 133 MHz box at 800x600 at first ... and then I will never look back.
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>And who is going to use your software then, since you'll be the only person in the world to use it.

Me. :-)


>>I pray deeply to free everyone who wants freed from this profit-based / control-based / horrendous system of control and domination that is money-seeking big business, from that unholy thing which is seen everywhere profit-seeking is involved, something along the lines the "Microsoft agenda" as of being nothing short of a dominating and directing leech.
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>Asking someone to pay for your time while developing your "free" software is being a leech as well, n'est ce pas?

I'm not asking someone to pay for my time. I am continuing to develop it on my own, and have resolved to do so from the beginning. My statements were this: How much is it going to cost you to migrate your applications to another platform? How many companies are there which must do this individually? If you come together and pay for the cost of my life and living, not for excess nor profit or gain beyond need, but my literal expenses, then would it cost you less to move that way?

And the choice was made ... a lot of caveats and addendums related to profit-ends resulting from Visual FreePro's development, apart from which nobody wanted to contribute.


>>My philosophy on software releases is summed up at the bottom of this page, Protecting Your Investment:
>>http://www.visual-freepro.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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>>I desire to serve people ... not profit. Needs ... not agendas. In short: I desire to serve God ... not other things.
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>Uh huh....


Yup. :-)