Don’t Let Software Die ~ Chris Pirillo Interesting post regarding TuCow's decision a while back to stop updating Blogware. It reminded me a little of VFP in that it's a company that has decided to stop updating one of its software packages. Chris' comments on the letter: >> What worries me most about building communities on closed platforms is that as soon as those platforms change direction or stop innovating, you’re locked into a toolset that has nowhere to go but down Whoa! Does this sound like VFP and FoxPro? Read on... >> Tucows has given absolutely no indication that they’re interested in opening the platform at all - leaving you in more of a no-win situation. You can't fault Microsoft for not wanting to open up the VFP engine - as that has given a lot of its other products some definite improvements but the re-licensing of the xBase components certainly does show that they were interested in not killing it outright. Indeed, I think Microsoft deserves...
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