I think that the only way that VFP, which is far superior in almost every way to VS .Net IMHO, will have a larger community developing for it is if it is sold by M$ and some good business people and developers take it over and sell it as a cross platform solution
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~M

Lastly, the potential of a worldwide community developing VFP apps for Linux far outweighs the distribution fees. I have this love/hate attitude towards Microsoft, but I can see that they're very scared of Linux. Charging a small licensing fee for VFP would be good for the VFP community, programmers, and yes, Microsoft. It's conceivable that VFP could surpass Visual Studio in terms of the number of programmers, within a few years.

What does everybody else think?