>1) Is the VFP community strong enough to develop VFP further if we had access >to the source code?

I don't think it is a matter of talent. It is more a matter of being in the correct business. As Christof said, we make $'s by developing VFP apps, not be developing VFP. For as tight as the VFP community is, it is still too loose a confederation for an organized effort that something like this will require.

>2) What are the chances of selling Microsoft on turning VFP into an open->source test case?

2 chances. They are Slim and None...

>3) Anybody interested in this?

No, because I don't see the need for it. Finally, if I put my MBA hat on, where's the payback/ROI? How would it be financed? How would the langauge be marketed? Liking to do something is a far cry from it being a good business decision....< s >..

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>1) Not me, but I know some of us are very good. Maybe some of the original Foxbase creators (Dave Fulton ?? et al) would be intrigued by such a project. And perhaps some of the MS guys like Ken Levy would do a little moonlighting.
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>2) MS has a way of jumping on the bandwagon if they think its rolling and can't be sidetracked into a ditch (e.g. GUIs, Web, Java). They could get quite a bit of PR brownies for a significant contribution to the open-source movement. Also they might be able to free up some key VFP personnel for other projects (SQL, VB, etc.) if responsibility for further development was shared.
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>3) Philosophically I would love to see this happen. Perhaps there would be some small niche that I could contrihute to.
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>Peter Robinson