>Actually, if my poor, tired brain is not misleading me, Ashton-Tate did at one point try to sue either Fox Software or Nantucket (Clipper) or both. Don't think anything came out of it, though.

I don't think it is, Gonzoris of Borg.:-) Here at Shaw, we switched from dBASE to Fox because: A. There was a cost savings; B. The product performed better; and C. We could deploy applications with just a run-time (didn't have to have the whole package). "Look and feel" meant zero.

OTOH, and to Microsoft's credit I feel, MS's publication of the "Window User Experience" and the documentation that preceded it, is an attempt to standardize the way things look and work. In doing so, it's the user that benefits.

>>If we look at Fox's history, and compare FoxBASE to dBASE III, couldn't it be said that Fox "stole" the interface from dBASE?