>MS will never let this happen....
Given their current attitude about Open Source I would have to agree.

>Open source would give the possibility of having a version of VFP that would run on Linux, a direct competitor to Windows.
...and Mac OSX and hopefully others, like it was meant to.

>Finally, there is only one person on the planet who make make VFP dance and sing, and he works for MS.
Don't know the in's and out's of MS that well, who are you referring to?

Besides...
I bet their are some big time programmers that love FoxPro that could do some really cool things with the source code if they had the chance.



>Open source??? Be careful what you ask for, you might get it...
That would be nice


>MS will never let this happen... From a business perspective, it makes no sense for MS to do it.
Maybe, but it may have some PR value.

>From a QA perspective, it >makes no sense for developers to want this to happen.
I guess I have more faith in the Open Source community.


>Fox is a scuttled vessel that cannot be righted...
Well if you've given up, then I guess you don't have a better idea.


>>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.