Why now? When would be a good time? After VFP8 shipped? VFP9? VFP125?,

How about after Linq is released so there is (or isn't) a visible upgrade path? ;-)

That's not a criticism. I understand fully why you wanted to let everybody know asap when the time came when VFP10 prep should start but it wasn't going to happen. That would have been evident to a reasonable pool of people and the news would have slipped into the community as a death of a thousand knives. Mind you we've been getting that from various prophets anyway since 1995 and the road map was fairly obvious, but the changing circumstances of the Fox team would have clinched it.

IMHO you've done a great job for VFP- if you'd really wanted to "kill" it, boy that would have been easy. We've seen a small taste in the last few days of how easy it would have been. Instead you and a few others have kept it going long after I expected, to a point where other tools are much more accessible than they were even 3 years ago. Which is great for people who cannot survive the lack of a new verison. For the rest, 2015 is still a long way away.

As for your tormentor: you may have been called a coward, but I won't repeat what I was once called by a certain notorious poster who subsequently went and did law. At least we'll have something to look back on and chuckle about when we're incontinent old men who have been outsourced to the third world. ;-)