>Hi John,
>
>Speaking as a developer with 25+ years experience and a former VFP team member at MS, I have to agree with Fred - the camaraderie of the VFP community is something special...in fact, so special that MS tries to find ways to build dev comminities with their other products using the VFP community as a model.
>
>Every single "elite" member of the VFP world has contributed code and concepts to the VFP community gratis. There's an old running joke that when a VFPer finds a new trick he immediately shares it with all but a VBer immediately forms a company and sells it.
>
>Sure, there are individuals within every developer clan that are social and fun to hang out with. But the Fox world is truly unique in that all of them are socialable and all of them will bare their coding souls for you. When and if this community flames out, it will be a sad day for thousands of developers.

Amen.