On the 25th anniversary of Classic VB, Return It To Its Programmers

mikejuk writes: To celebrate 25 years of VB there is a new request on User Voice,
On the 25th anniversary of Classic VB, Return It To Its Programmers
Microsoft has been asked a number of times to open source VB6. This has been repeatedly rejected without any real reason being given.
However to remove a language from its community without an exceptional reason is an act of vandalism. The new Microsoft claims to back open source, why not in this case?
There is no need for Microsoft to do any more work on the code base — simply open source it and allow the community to keep it alive. Don't deride the attempt to make Classic VB open source if you are happy with .NET. There is no doubt C# and VB .NET are sophisticated well designed languages and perhaps you, like me, have no desire to return to VB6 or anything like it. Vote for the proposal not because you want to use VB6 or that you think it is worth having — Vote for it because a company like Microsoft should not take a language away from its users.