Nope, the IDE Is still under copyright. Downloading it would be a Bad Thing.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025, 14:38 Kurt Wendt kurthwendt@gmail.com wrote:

So, I just made a reply in another thread, but, didn't want to truly hi-jack it - so, am starting a new one.

And, yeah - it's partially about the Vfpx.org site that I went to. It got me thinking...

Since VFP is Dead in the eyes of MS. I'm really curious to know. Can one legitimately download a full install version of VFP - a full Dev environment - and it's fully legal to do?

Again - I'm just curious about this...

TIA, -K

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On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 19:39, Kurt Wendt kurthwendt@gmail.com wrote:

Since VFP is Dead in the eyes of MS. I'm really curious to know. Can one legitimately download a full install version of VFP - a full Dev environment - and it's fully legal to do?

Probably if you have a MSDN subscription (or whatever they call it this week). They still had Windows 3.11 for download last time I looked.

I'll check tomorrow when I'm in the office. Yes, the office. After 5 years of WFH I'm being forced back.

VFP 9.0 is still NOT freeware like MS-DOS! :)

It's impossible to buy VFP 9 (still 32-bit) from software shops as well now if not from MSDN. But the VFP in MSDN doesn't allow you to sell programs built with it.

GitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM Kurt Wendt kurthwendt@gmail.com wrote:

Since VFP is Dead in the eyes of MS. I'm really curious to know. Can one legitimately download a full install version of VFP - a full Dev environment - and it's fully legal to do?