>>>>So, you can copyright a language?
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>>>>>Maybe Fox software won the case in USA's laws but I think Foxbase was an illegal copy of Dbase...
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>>>I know my english is broken but you're a smart man. You know what I mean, I think your court was mistaken.
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>>Dr. Dave did not steal dbase code! he created a similar product from scratch. Lucki;y, otherwise foxbase would have been just as slowwww as dbas was!
>>if I create a product in a cleanroom which does what vfp does without decompiling vfp i can do so. vfp ide was not protected
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>I remembered I read that story, they transferred Ashton Tate's developer to Fox Software. I'm sure they formatted their brains... :)
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>Also I think steal to dbase code doesn't require. Foxbase and Dbase was similar almost %99. Their commands were same. I think that's enogh for talking about stealing...

Metin,

I hope you don't mind if i disagree with you on that one. Dr. Dave Fulton was a professor at a Ohio university and had some of his star students write the code for foxbase. then they created a Mac version which also worked with DOS dbf files (which dBase for Mac did NOT). then they ported the UI to dos and added object orientation and named it foxpro.
no stealing involved.
If you write a poem in english does not mean you stole from Shakespeare even if you use the same words (but in different order :-)

btw I really like your city! It's one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. My daughter worked there for a year

Peter