>>This sounds alot like what happen to the Xbase standards. Each company wanted to control the standard until they could agree on what the standard was and it died. People have such a different opinion now of the Xbase language as it is only good for legacy systems. I was all for the Xbase standards so the schools would start teaching it. Now it is becomming harder and harder to find good training for VFP which is the only real player left.
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>Yeah, I thought of Ashton-Tate and their attempt to keep dBase II to themselves. I think it was Fox that they sued for copyright infringement. A successful language like Fortran is bound to outgrow the company that started it (IBM). A smart company will go with the flow.
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>Peter

Actually, Ashton-Tate sued Fox a couple times and nothing became of it. I thought A-T could have won since Fox was telling people that if you wanted any more (they included some) documentation to check out a dBASE book/manual.

Remember, that this was the days of the "look and feel" law suites that Lotus started.