>I found the site to be misleading with its statements on Open Source. What they mean is new tools will be open source. Woohoo! I could not find any place where the entire product be open source. And without open source, I don't think the Linux community is going to pay much attention. They already have philosophical problems with Sun/Java. Why would they jump ship to a prodcut that is also proprietary?
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What??? Here is the link: http://www.dbase.com/Cnt/OpenSource.htm

I found it to be replete with detail. What? Did you assume open source meant the dBase language - right away - was going to be open source? Please. Let's say you had the source to VFP. What would you do with it any?


>And I loved the founder's comments on VFP and VB:
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>http://www.dbase.com/Frm/ModuleCompany.htm
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>VFP's editors work with "snippets", not with source code files and VB has no inheritance.
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>Is that supposed to be some stinging rebuttal of VFP? And I think we know were
you stand on VB's inheritance.


That is all you took from the site? Too bad...

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