[Am-info] Visual FoxPro for Linux: A Violation of the EULA?

[Fred A. Miller]

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6869

"In the past few weeks, this story has appeared on The Register, Slashdot, 
LinuxWorld and even the German publication Heise Online. That's pretty 
amazing considering Microsoft has done its best the last few years to keep 
Visual FoxPro, one of its most powerful development tools, off the radar 
screen. Why would they do that? One simple reason: money. An application 
developed in Visual FoxPro is much more economical for a business, as Visual 
FoxPro has its own data handling and storage capabilities. Contrast that with 
the much more popular tool Visual Basic, which requires a separate data 
engine (usually Microsoft SQL Server). Microsoft makes a lot more money 
selling licenses for SQL Server, which are quite expensive, than they do when 
VFP applications are distributed, requiring no additional license fees. So 
which solution do you think Microsoft is going to promote? The fact that 
Visual FoxPro has a rich set of development tools and a robust 
object-oriented programming language doesn't concern them; they simply want 
the highest license fees they can squeeze out of their customers."

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