Linux Journal: Visual FoxPro for Linux: A Violation of the EULA?

“It started out in an unassuming manner: an industrious
developer, Paul McNett, had a growing interest in Linux. He began
playing around with the open-source implementation of Windows for
Linux called WINE and wondered how his favorite development tool,
Microsoft Visual FoxPro, would run. It was slow going at first, but
Paul persisted. He tracked down problems and submitted them to the
WINE team. Little by little the problems were corrected, until Paul
finally was able to run Visual FoxPro under WINE. He began telling
other VFP developers about his work, and many were interested in
learning more.

“One such person was Whil Hentzen. Whil is the editor of FoxTalk
magazine, a multiple-year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional award, book publisher, host of his own FoxPro
conference and the first ever recipient of the FoxPro Community
Lifetime Achievement Award. Whil asked Paul to write an article
detailing his work for FoxTalk, and Paul agreed. Whil also began
incorporating a demo of Visual FoxPro running under WINE into his
presentations at conferences and user group meetings…”

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