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Letter to Microsoft Executives, please correct it or send an email to info@masfoxpro.com if there is any english typo. Thanks
To: Microsoft Executives
After the annoucement that Microsoft did in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb308952.aspx for not continuing future Visual FoxPro development the persons who signed below want to express:
As customers we want to know a convincing explanation or logical reason as to why Microsoft decided not to release version 10 of Visual FoxPro.
Visual FoxPro is the best desktop database development environment to date. .NET still lacks many of the better features that Visual FoxPro has in it for years.
This announcement has been a major blow to the FoxPro community. This is especially true for the medium and small application developers (the vast majority of developers in Visual FoxPro), that have many years of Visual FoxPro code. It is not practical or cost effective to attempt to move these applications to Microsoft's recommended development environment (.NET). The community is rethinking its future development platform.
We ask you to continue future Visual FoxPro development, if this cannot fit with Microsoft needs, we suggest two other possibilities that would benefit the community (in order of relevance):
- Release the full Visual FoxPro source code to Open Source (even restricted in any way)
- Form a partnership with a third party so that this third party can continue Visual FoxPro development
We express again our full support for the great work the VFP Team has done for years and have no doubt that they can continue to improve an already excellent product.
We look forward to your reply,
Regards,
Signers from MasFoxPro campaign
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