>>Second, and more important...I don't recall all the specifics, but I know that in the spring of 2004, JVP offered to write an article for David/FoxTalk. John was doing some pretty interesting work in Oracle for the client we both worked for, and he offered to write something on using Oracle with VFP. David essentially turned him down....I don't recall the specific words, but David essentially was concerned in taking on the "controversy" of having John as an author.
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>I don't have any knowledge of that so I can't comment on it. Perhaps we could hear David's side of the story (there are ALWAYS two sides).

Well, I can't reply to Kevin because he's apparently been banned now. Anyway, just to correct the record, there were multiple posts here from 2004 between me and JVP about this incident that Kevin mentioned. To summarize, I was never directly offered an article or a series of articles by JVP on Oracle -- all I got at the start was an email that started out "I have not heard from you. Are you interested in the content. If you have
an issue with me - then just say that. One way or another, just let me know."

I did, in fact, suggest to JVP that after his very public attacks on Whil about Foxtalk, especially in threads announcing the launch of FoxTalk 2.0, that I really didn't want him involved with FoxTalk 2.0 during its initial launch period, and I already had lots of potential new authors submitting proposals to me by then -- something that he never did.

After an exchange of multiple emails, during which I offered to consider accepting article proposals from JVP at the end of the year (and suggested that he should follow the same article proposal procedure that I expected of all potential authors), he escalated the incident here publicly and continued to misrepresent the facts of what really happened.

I NEVER received any details from him about a specific article proposal -- either before or after his initial strange email quoted above. Any other assertions to the contrary are false. As of this date, I still do not know any specific details about what he wanted to write.

I suggested to him that perhaps there was an initial email he sent to me about Oracle articles that I never received, and I asked him to produce such an email showing that he had proposed something to me prior to the strange email quoted above. He never produced such an email, either privately or publicly.

Perhaps he had suggested such an article to Ken Levy (he hinted at that at one point) and thought that by doing so he was actually proposing something to me. However, Ken never mentioned such an article idea to me (and had no reason to do so anyway, as Microsoft's involvement in the content was only a monthly column of Tips from the VFP Team).

I hope this clears the air for anyone curious about the validity of Kevin's comments about JVP offering articles to FoxTalk during my tenure as editor. I'll not comment further about this, as my positions on it were clearly laid out publicly in the thread(s) back in 2004.