Thanks. I think this will die out over the Memorial Day holiday here in the U.S. No one will "win", but it doesn't really matter. I was just standing up for what I saw as an unfair and inaccurate accusation against the community. But I hope we've moved on to other things by next week. I did learn that there are some people around here who it seems will avoid communicating with people that have a different opinion than their own. I guess they only want to talk with people who agree with them.

>Aldough I am not to mad with comments like this, I defenetely agree
>with your assesment on causes ;
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>I don't remember since when profits were made by fadding/hidding product away
>rather then promoting it to greater NEW audiences.
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>Those of us who knew VFP, and realised it's potentials are of cours staying with it for as long as it lasts. But you cannot base ecconomics of the product to selling more copies to people who ALREADY HAVE workable copy (eg VFP6). Profits are made by advertizing and promoting to waist armies of other (new) developers who are (were back then) strugling with other languages shortcommings and would appreciate/enjoy menu VFP capabilities/strengths if they knew, heard, were pointed to it by powerfull M$ marketing machine, local MS representative, broadly distributed PC maggazines etc.
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>If they (M$) wanted to sell ONLY to existing (CompuServe,UT,VFUG etc) members groups/user base, then they should hv establish separate subscription program solely for VFP, amounting yearly to cost of VFP team + some reasonable profit and let it go this way.
>But that would not be necessary if VFP as product was just properly marketed
>and not frowned uppon by every MS highshot, and everybody else down on earth who aspire to have fruitfull relationship with M$.
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>Even like this with EOL announced, my take is that will still outlast menu of today's 'groundbreaking' new NET technologies.
>Just think how meny (client) businesses would hv been in real limbo if tmrw was last day of VFP apps actually working. (Like MS embeded time stop back then in VFP3 and it activates tmrw)
>If you can imagine that, You will get very simple answer of how long VFP is going to live;
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>For as long, and as much as those businesses depend on it!
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>So I am not worried at all. There is still long road ahead of us!
>Have great weekend :)