>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.

I'm one of those developers. I've been working with Linux for some years and I can see that there are possible advantages, EXCEPT that database development is not anywhere near as advanced for the Linux platform as on Windows. A FoxPro for Linux would be a wonderful thing, and would clean up.

While I think the VFP+WINE is a possibility, it strikes me as kind of a technical kludge. What would be ideal is an open source version of VFP that would compile to any platform.

Frankly, I find this whole thing pretty pathetic on Microsoft's part. Their insistance on this reminds me of the IBM Microchannel.