>>In fairness, I don't think the demise of FoxPro was due to developers failing to upgrade to versions 7, 8, and 9. Those of us who are technology-driven and committed upgraded. Those who are market-driven in many cases did not.
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>I don't think it was a major factor, but I do think it was part of the equation. Based on the questions I see online, an awful lot of people are still stuck on VFP 6.
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>FWIW, people's failure to spend money is a big reason why there are no new books for VFP. I just got royalty statements from Whil covering about 7 months, and my total income from all my books (those I wrote and those I tech-edited) in that period is under $1000. Hard to justify the time to write a book for those dollars.
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Well, there's that. FWIW, though, the Hacker's Guide help icon is still on my desktop and is used in favor of the built-in help as a first option whenever I want to look something up. I have also learned a great deal from your articles and generous posts online. In the kind of "income" that really matters, the kind that will outlive us, you are doing great.