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>What do you mean by 'nonsense'?? You don't think it's a good idea to be able to run VFP apps on Linux -or are you talking about the legal issues involved??
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>It is nonsense to try and get VFP to work on Linux.
[na - no other platform existed at the time to do to what *IT* could do.]
> The snake oil some tried to sell had no business or technical merit.
[Mondo Business Merit - can chuck out the OS Licensing fee. But - you did not see that as a good thing, right ?
Mondo Technical Merit - THINGS WORK. ]
> If people are serious about programming on the Linux platform - then they need to be thinking of an environment - other than Fox.
[Disagree - it was all an experiment to see how far it *WOULD* work - then push the envelope and MAKE it work.
It's fun to see you were not part of the positive movement. Here comes the Label -> Slacker. ]
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>To make a long story short, MS has not misused their copyrights. At this point, it would take too long to explain to you just why that is. The VFP/Wine/Linux crowd
[err - NO - *YOU* you dim-witted f*ck, brought him in via 4 email replies, and you CC'd the ProFox list, and the 'lawyer-in-question' in his infinite wisdom, did a 'reply all' - so the Profox bunch got his replies to your melifluous rants. ]

>managed to get a lawyer to post something in regard to their argument. One thing is for sure, you can always find a lawyer to argue your case. Note I said argue. I did not say it had to be a winning argument. Needless to say, I mopped up the floor.
[No - you did not. You only added to the FUD factor - as is your modis operandii ]

>Granted, I only had a newly minted law degree.
[NOPE - at the time in question - you had *NOT* completed all requirements for your degree - pull the other one? ]
> But as I have often been told, knowledge and preparation make up for lack of experience. The guy talked in theory - with little to know knowledge fo the facts.
[I can almost concede the point here - but his 'examples' were WAAAAAY outdated for Intellectual Property Law -and so far ? the experience ain't yours, and the facts have yet again, escaped you]
>Law in the air is meaningless.
[lets be fair, shall we ? he rendered an opinion sans payment.
the opinion was NOT spot on, for he lacked many many many facts. So an opinion based on FREE FEE plus lack o knowledge base can't be worth much]
[OH Wait - this is what you and I are doing [again] - Opinions based on FREE FEE] ..

[John - you really need to stay out of things you are no longer concerned with. Once you do that ? All of us here will breathe easier and go on with more mondo creative stuff for VFP]