Sunday, October 22, 2017

Microsoft say "It is not feasible to open source VB6 tools chain and ecosystem." Why ?

Microsoft say of the VB6 programming language "In summary, VB6 was awesome. We agree. We don’t expect or demand anyone to throw away their code or rewrite from any of our technologies unless it makes business sense for them to do so. We have to innovate to enable our customers to innovate. It is not a viable option to create a next version of VB6. We stand by our decision to make VB.NET and the .NET Framework. We think they are awesome too. It is not feasible to open source VB6 tools chain and ecosystem." - Paul Yuknewicz, Group Program Manager, June 3, 2014.
It does not make business sense to have to rewrite VB6 applications. And yet without an updated or open source VB6 you are forcing VB6 developers to move to a different language.
Why is it "not a viable option to create a next version of VB6" ?
Why is it "not feasible to open source VB6 tools chain and ecosystem" ?
You have updated the VBA programming language from VBA6 to VBA7.x. Exactly why can't you do this for VB6 ?
You have open sourced much of .Net. Exactly why can't you open source VB6 ?
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