>But there's two big differences:
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>1) There's no replacement for Family Guy. It's a one of kind type of program. And the petition is one small part of what brought it back. The ratings on Cartoon Network and DVD sales. Which show how much money there was to be made continuing the program. VFP sales is a known quantity, and it's extremely small.
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>2) A side effect of the small size of the VFP developer pool...VB People initially complained that they had to learn dotnet. Far, far more numerous then VFP people. How far did it get them?

So they're smarter because they've learned faster to, how was it, "get over it and move on"?

But then VB was never as much of a community. There were too many of them, and at some point, when there was a shortage in their ranks, I've heard (from my employer) they were running training courses for unemployed janitors to learn VB.