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Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-it's-not-willy-nilly-hippie-open-source-goof-offs dept.

An anonymous reader submits "CNet reports that Microsoft is remaining firm an ending support for VB6, despite a petition and many requests from its developer community. If only VB were a F/OSS project instead of a proprietary customers could be assured of continued support as long as there was demand. Are there any good F/OSS implementations of VB out there for customers to migrate to? One can only hope that enlightened groups like the Agility Alliance would warn about the risks of using such software that can be end-of-lifed even while they're in heavy use."

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  1. Re:Good Implementations of VB??? by Foofoobar · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually this is considered slow for a Microsoft post; Most of them get Godwin'd a bit faster... especially if one invokes the name of 'the gates' or 'the monkeyboy'. Then sacrifices a goat and inserts a blank CD with a pentagram on it for formatting.

    Ooops... now I have compared them to Satan. I've double Godwin'd! DOH!

    Please... only people who can't take a joke would call a Godwin. Besides, calling a Godwin is just as bad as invoking one so STFU!

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  2. Re:Good Implementations of VB??? by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Please... only people who can't take a joke would call a Godwin.
    Um... what I posted about Godwin WAS a joke, dumbass.

    I was going to try to come up with some witty way to say this, but there's no point, because that would have flown over your head, too.

  3. Re:Support in free software vs. proprietary softwa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    By law, only the copyright owner may provide modifications to proprietary software.

    Care to back that one up, sparky?

  4. Instead of just ending VB6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    End all BASIC, period!!! If you can't program in C++, then you're too fucking stupid to use a god damned computer.

  5. Re:Gentlemen, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What kind of junk are your sniffing?

    Basic is for kids who are thinking about learning
    how to program or for people still using their
    Vic20 or TRS-80. You might want to grow up
    and learn how to program, you will then find
    a lot of good alternatives like C, perl or python.

    To think that Java is faster than C you must
    have been sniffing glue or flour.

    Perl retired?

    Are you posting from Bellevue by any chance?