Bill Arnold wrote: > Ricardo, > > Hi Bill, sorry I took a couple of days before answering, but I was moving to my new home (4th move in the last 6months).
> > Investors have already sent a message to M$, "we don't care". M$ has > certainly taken note of this message and is acting accordingly. > > ------------------------------------- > > I'm not talking about Wall Street investors, but software companies and > their customers, particularly the small ones who could barely afford the > expense of automation in the first place. They've got way too much on their > plates to even think about going back and replacing something they've > already invested precious time and money to implement because someone said > that someone else said that MS said FoxPro is dead? > Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but I see it differently. The M$ execs don't really care about customers. Why should they? They care about Wall Street. If some action of theirs causes actions to rise or costs to go down they'll be gratified. After some while, when the real consequences of their actions cause havoc, they can jump boat to another company and even get a huge bonus. The system is rigged this way. If they act as you say they will they'll be penalized (the execs, not M$) and some other exec will "make a kill" and displace them. Besides which, they can always say you can still run your app in the current W$ version, they are not cutting you off (and I think they would be right). > This "case" (if it comes to that) involves the unique nature of software, > and there's much more that can be said about it, but let's hope that MS > hears an appeal for some kind of statement saying they will continue to > support running VFP applications for the life of Windows and put an end to > speculation. The "life" of W$???? Forever ?!?!?! Are you out of your mind? BTW, M$ is not a person. The ones you hope will "hear an appeal for..." are the M$ execs, and to be honest, I don't think they give a damn about your appeals, they just care about their careers and their bank accounts (otherwise they would be socialists, wouldn't they?). > > LOL > Have you put your socks by the chimney yet? Santa's coming! > > --------------------- > > I can understand your pressimism. We live in very difficult times. > Realism is many a time labeled as pessimism or skepticism by those who refuse to face reality. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
