Why???

The real problem with the current state of VFP was the lack of marketing outside the VFP developper community. Do you really think that the open source will be the solution for this problem?

If the developper base continue to shrink like a plum under the sun, the fox will soon be an endangered specie. Why dont you offer something to help expand the VFP developper community?

Based on the fact that MS will not market VFP outside the current VFP customer base, a counter offensive from us can be to do the marketing for MS.

I dont know, if every developper put 100$ in a basket, may be we can buy some air time during the next Superbowl?

We can take the word from JVP and go to .NET.
.OR. We can continue with VFP and cross our arms until the fox fall belly up.
.OR. We can try to expand the fox developer base to keep our favorite dev tool alive.

Its up to us...

But, open source is not an option IMO ...

>MS should Open Source VFP. They already have SQL Sever, MSDE, Access, ect... They don't need VFP anymore. I doubt it's a drop in the revenue bucket. VFP just doesn't fit that well, hence it dropped out of VS. It's proper place is by it self, where it is now, but out from under the constraints of MS's agenda.
>Don't get me wrong I think MS has done a great job with VFP, but I think for it to really move forward and to put to bed once and for all the fate of FoxPro, Open Source is the answer.