No, I am not really against your opinions but wish to say something on the subject (and you are just the bear to shoot at :-))

Refox is there to to get my own sources back, which occasionally is needed. So, great stuff;
Refox is there too to get it encrypted, so no problem and if I want, I should use it. To say the $ is a topic, IMO makes no sense. Hence that MS should take care of either. However :

IMO it goes a little far that I myself (in fact we all) must a. find out how to and b. write some small program to get rid of the sources in the classes. I mean, if one's not that much experienced, he/she just gives away the sources explicitly (i.e. just doesn't know this happens);
I didn't see anybody say it, but this is why maybe the thinking exists that MS doesn't want to do anything about it.
In the end for me it is not so much of a problem, because all be dealt with.

For anyone who's stating that the sources aren't so much of a value, I would think twice;
Even a rather small app can contain valuable ideas, which are under the protection of copyright laws. Now I know "overseas" (yep I'm from the other side) things are more easy to the respect of patenting, while overhere it is (still) all more implicit (Authors rights), but therefore much more difficult. So, I am thinking in the direction of the judge "finding out" that the source was explicitly delivered with the app, and then what ? "You just gave it away guy".

Where a small app may have its value for (technical) ideas, the big app has its value in all occasions just because it is big. Mind you, I (we) have this 100,000+ hrs app which is really worth while copying, because such an app "shows" the consistency in functionalities which really cannot be designed again the same way (just too many decisions to make the same). However, once all the source is at hand, all the logic is there, and the other can start his own business in a few 1,000 hrs only. Please bear in mind that the difference is $40,000,000 just for the hours, not to think of the commercial value where the other has a $40M marketing budget, where you spent the money on the development. And, I have been there, right in the middle.

Note that you (MS) may not have heard about this subject so much because the more experienced can get around it. And, the less experienced don't call you.

So my message is only this :
Please don't trivialize this one and know that somewhere in this world some legacy-jobs are being done with VFP. I think it is already hard enough to convince larger companies that VFP can do the job for them; thinking on this topic the wrong way (ok, as how I see it) doesn't contribute to that.

Regards,