>>An there's a news item on the VFP home page that even Microsoft itself has a petition out there to push it's XML standard through faster.
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>>Yet, somehow, petitions are beneath many of our luminaries here. Go figure!
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>There's a difference between something that has a chance and is currently valid and something that has no chance and has been made clear a number of times.

Nothing has a chance if it is just blindly accepted.

But, more importantly, I guess the only reason you venture into this forum in the first place is to sling nasty barbs. Why hang out in a place that's all about a product that has no further chance?