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

You know, I'll bet we could... but would there be enough of us? Just look at the number of people working on Linux....

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

Other people have made good cases against this, unfortunately...

>3) Anybody interested in this?

You know, I was just thinking this myself, before I saw your article: it was something down the lines of being able to run VFP on a Sun box under Linux....