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>>Slashdot means that this issue has gone big-time.
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>I'd be interested to know just how many people really care about this at this time. I can't imagine huge numbers of Fox developers dying to start developing apps in/for Linux. Or am I behind the times ?
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>Or is it just a principle thing ? Big bad MS trying to rule the world etc.

It's a customer thing: if your customers are moving to Linux, you move or you wither. If you can use the same tool (VFP) on both platforms, you save money and increase your market. Didn't FP 2.6 run under Unix once?