>>Had Whil had stepped aside 12-18 months earlier, FoxTalk might not have become FoxTalk 2.0, David Stevenson might not have been involved, and you would have done a very nice job. And Pinnacle would not have been left in a lurch.
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>Whil felt (and continues to feel) a huge responsibility for the VFP community. Yes, he could have quit without a successor being available. But he didn't because that would be irresponsible. Instead, he waited a long time hoping a successor capable of the job could be identified. It wasn't his job to find that person, though he did make an effort to identify people who might be willing to take it on. And he continued editing for several months after giving notice to give them time to find someone.
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>FWIW, Whil edited FoxTalk longer than any of the other editors. He took it on in 1996 and continued into 2004. Editing a magazine of this sort is a tough job and he did it longer than anyone else in the Fox community. Yet he still gets flak for giving it up. Unbelievable.
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>If you really think it was Whil leaving FoxTalk that led to Pinnacle being sold (again, if I recall correctly), you're way overestimating Whil's importance and FoxTalk's importance in the Pinnacle world.
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>Pinnacle had a whole line of newsletters. The company was sold ... repeatedly. Eventually, it was sold to a company that knew nothing about technical newsletters. That happened more than two years after Whil left.
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>I suspect the unwillingness of software developers to pay for information in the Web era had a lot to do with the whole series of sales.
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>Tamar

The problem with Foxtalk was (and the problem with foxrockx is going to be) the same handful of authors every issue. I never subscribed to Foxtalk other than the free set of issues because of that and the cost. I don't care how you rationalize it, 159$ per year for 10-16 pages of content is tantamount to highway robbery. I subscribe to CoDe magazine becuase it gives me a mix of authors and styles. With the exception of a few regular authors, there is a chance for new authors with CoDe unlike tyring to break through the politics of the old boys club that was foxtalk and advisor.