>>You have no idea what has been said in private by the gurus.
>SNIP
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>Well we have at least a strong inference that some amongst the "gurus" pressed to have VFP killed earlier so that they could benefit from conversion business to .NET.
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>We have a few "gurus" who declared right here that signing a simple petition was not their cup-of-tea, for reasons that betray more caution regarding Microsoft than "caring" for the product and its future.
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IANAG but it was quite a while before I decided to sign the petition, and it had nothing to do with being afraid of Microsoft. I thought it was a pointless gesture. I suspect that is the reason others have not signed.