In my temporary quest to toy with your notions of despair - mind you - you do not have anything to defend - you are the real deal - your value is beyond any brand-paradigm fundalmentalism. "Boys" will ware a cap with a logo on it to bed - in the dentist chair - in a restaurant - at aunt belle's wake - and for what - to see how much pheromone has sweated into the brow band. A Jubilant "big" sniff is all it takes to make their day. These are so colled hat heads - they identify with the hat and not themselves.

But anyway - in my sincere and continuing efforts to "jibe" you forward, allow me to present the following article:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=437096&rl=1

I once had a gig with a commercial shop. One of my laisons was a programmer. I sent them a working phase of the project. In the delivered phase the forms were modeless and "linked (procedural bindings)".

The laison, upon review, suggested it was their convention to use modal forms and was baiting me to offer to do that. I didn't remind that the "boss" flew your humble narrator 2000 miles to go over this project. I didn't remind that I was hired because I had an acute expertise in the topic and implementation. I didn't remind that the "boss" gave me design authority. I did not remind that most of my rebuttals against the original "design" prototype were sensisable and accepted.

I did not remind him of anything. I suggested he demo the delivery to the boss. Can you imagine being a fulltime developer at a shop with coding standards that require all forms to be modal. SOmebody tried real hard to make VFP 7 look like FPW!:-)

That project was like that for a long time before I got there. If you - or most anyone on this board had been my counter part - I would never have been hired - because you (or one of us) would have busted their butt to make it the baddest arsed -slickest GUI the world had ever seen. All of us have moved beyond the "flaming logo" vs. the "spinning logo".

Read the article - it will tear your heart appart!:-)

I don't need to see a logo on you. You're dedicated - you don't need to wear anyone's moniker but your own. Don't let them dress you as a "corporate" Software Janitor!