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>It's not a new phenomenon. Years ago, Walk Kennamer used to proudly tell people that the chinese version of FoxBase+ was the most popular dbms in China

Not only in China - in Russia too, because at that time the first program for Russian banks were written on FoxBASE+. This Bank's program was spread with full FoxBASE++ versions and it could copy everybody who did want. FoxBASE+ is still popular on Russian Far East - especially in educational system, because they have not money for new computers and FoxBASE+ programs are still working smoothly :)