>FYI:
>
>I attended the BAADD (Bay Area Association of Database Developers) VFP sig
>meeting Wed. evening. It was to be something very special since Whil
>Hentzen was coming in to talk to us about developing with the Fox under
>Linux.
>
>Whil made some very good points about the growth of Linux and the fact that
>it soon will be a very viable solution for the desktop for people who don't
>(or can't afford) microsoft's extortionate policies, practices and prices.
>I'd have to agree. I had very few and very minor problems installing a version
>on one of the machines on my network. The Red Hat 8.0 install comes with
>a complete office suite, email clients and servers, web server, samba
>network file service, etc, etc. You can download the images for free and
>try it out.
>
>The most interesting point Whil made was that there was a group of people
>who really knows database applications (us) who could fit right into the
>Linux world if we got VFP running under it. They don't need the apps now
>but soon and there's no other viable 4GL language for Linux and Windows on
>the near horizon.
>
>But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Whil got a call this
>afternoon from a semi-highly placed person from M$ who warned him that he
>would be in violation of the EULA for VFP if he demonstrated (or ran) VFP on
>a Linux OS. that he might run into some trouble from their huge stable of
>lawyers. There has been some discussion of letting M$ know how we feel
>about this attack on our potential livelihood. I intend to do just that.
>
>M$ won't market it for Windows applications, even those for which it's the
>best tool. Now M$ won't let us run it on any other OS, especially the one
>that's going to kick their butts. They are so interested in owning everyone's
>desktop that don't they see that in this way they could sell a whole lot of
>VFP stuff to other programmers and make some money out of it. But then,
>they think they'll make a lot more money the way they're doing it now.
>
>Chet Gardiner
>www.chetgardiner.com

Would it also be a violation if an app that was made with VFP is run on Linux?