In thinking about the irony of how there's all this false info about VFP out there due to one person's mistake, it's a damn shame the guy didn't mangle the story to say "MS to support VFP for 100 years", or at least something else really positive.
-Steve At 12:02 PM 3/29/2007, you wrote: >On 3/29/07, Wolfe, Stephen S YA-2 6 MDSS/SGSI ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I've off the list for awhile, so, what is this Foxpro going > opensource all about? > >Much ado about nothing. YAG announced at the MVP Summit that the Sedna >add-ons for VFP9 were being released under one of MS's "shared source" >licenses at CodePlex.com, as had been previously suggested, and that >there were no plans for VFP 10. > >Steven Vaughn-Nicholls picked up on the story and mangled it into "VFP >to be released as Open Source!" which is wrong on two counts: it's not >VFP they're releasing, and not Open Source they're releasing Sedna as. >His report was in eWeek, it was picked up all over the place, >including the O'Reilly website and Slashdot; confusion follows. >Despite the attempts of many of us to correct the report, it's out >there, and two or three threads here on leafe.com have gone off >wandering from that announcement. > >Welcome back, Stephen. Same stuff, different day. > >-- >Ted Roche >Ted Roche & Associates, LLC >http://www.tedroche.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
