>>>>>According to the unofficial FoxPro History site (http://www.foxprohistory.org), the "merger" cost MS $173M.
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>>>I wonder how much they would take to "unmerge" and release the product. Maybe all VFP developers should band together and buy it back. What is $173M divided by the number of VFP users <g>.
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>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Aaron
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>>Aaron;
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>>Will that include the development team? :)
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>>Tom
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>Why not. We can also give out Beta copies of VFP 9 to attendees of our Devcon's - of course they will be held in my local pub in Northern Ireland instead of the US (you guys have had it all your own way for too long <g>).
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>Now, if only I could find Bill Gates phone number....
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>Regards,
>
>Aaron

Aaron;

I will gladly join you at you pub. Perhaps I could look up my family in Cork and Galway. I would love to see Ireland. Perhaps I could find an old friend Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners in old Dublin. After all that I seriously doubt I would ever return to the United States. Hope you do not mind I enjoy Guinness.

Ronnie taught English in Spain where he also studied flamenco guitar. If you ever hear a Spaniard with a Dublin accent you can guess who his teacher was. Ronnie used his flamenco guitar to record for all those many years. My passion is flamenco guitar by the way and I play professionally when I am not programming.


Tom