>How about. . . for the same reasons that people (used to) like to run VFP, and FP before that, on MAC.

What reason is that? I am going to guess at the answer, but feel free to supply your own. :-)

FoxPro ran on the Mac OS had a decent market share. 20%? And back in the bad old days we didn't have a browser/http/xml/soap which allows computers of different types to communicate, so you had to port the executable to another OS.