Well said!! You read my mind ... that's exactly how I feel about this.

Cathy


>You have to understand one thing and one thing only:
>
>Microsoft doesn't owe you or the rest of us anything. Nowhere in the license agreement you accepted when you installed VFP (or any other product for that matter) does it say, Microsoft shall support VFP indefinitely and build new versions until there's not one developer left who wants it.
>
>Products get phased out. It happens all the time. And VFP didn't even really get phased out - the announcement just declares no new versions.
>
>Where do you draw the line? VFP developers are a dwindling breed. The VFP market is shrinking next to nothing. When should they quit? When you're the only one left standing? The developer base isn't tiny, but compared to other Microsoft technologies it is very, very small.
>
>You make it sound like somebody pulled a fast one on you. Like you have no choices. You have plenty of choices INCLUDING going on building VFP applications as you do now (I assume).
>
>C'mon. Microsoft has been clear for many years that they had no interest in making a strategic effort in VFP. If you couldn't see the writing on the wall you just were not paying attention and living in some sort of fairy land and instead of researching other technologies you'd be here raving trying to organize a petition to Microsoft or some other futile effort.
>
>We've been extremely lucky that the people who continued on the Microsoft FoxPro team for the last few years (Calvin, Aleksy, Robert, Alan and even Ken and Randy before) have been so dedicated to keeping the product going and providing major improvements in the last couple of versions - knowing full well that Microsoft wasn't putting much of an effort into VFP those years and knowning that MS would pull the plug eventually. I have to assume that there was a certain pride in building a quality product that's what kept them going - they 'owned it' and it showed. The product that is out there now is solid, mature and stable.
>
>So what do you want? Microsoft to say "We're sorry, Peter! We really didn't mean it. We'll build a custom new version just for you!" <s>
>
>Under the circumstances, YAG's announcement and response (especially to the various mean spirited responses) was much more personal than was required.
>
>It's done, it's over. But that doesn't mean that it's over for VFP. With support and boxes selling until 2015 you have plenty of time to continue building VFP applications...