So the only benefit to become part of SednaX is the fame of SednaX.

No, it's also exposure to volunteers who have decided to be part of what is heralded as *the* VFP community open source initiative for addons. The VFP community has always been strong, so this matters a lot. What we now risk (and indeed are being challenged to do by authority figures) is to split the community effort into SednaX, SednaY and whatever else. Who does that serve?

But Craig Boyd is right that this would surely be seen as a sign of preference over other comparable products.

Seen by whom? If SednaX is to be *the* community initiative, where is the external audience you are concerned about? People who don't participate in SednaX will still purchase the commercial products because that's who they are- unless the SednaX offering is so fabulous it puts the competition to shame. Why is that bad again?

Therefore the argument of "not just simply putting together all open source vfp projects" is very important.

Can you please point out the post where ANYBODY said SednaX should have to do this! We seem to keep losing context. This is about a WEB tool, an area in which this community has great interest. If this was about a nuclear power plant management system that somebody was trying to squeeze into SednaX, of course I'd agree with you. But we're talking about something that would be right up there in any community survey of "what we'd need". So how does that translate into trying to throw a whole lot of disconnected stuff in together?!