Well, for what it's worth I agree with you that MS decision re VFP had almost nothing to do with the VFP community - unless it was to prolong it about three versions longer than they might have otherwise. But the handwriting was on the wall for a loooong time.

Going back to your analogy of getting whacked upside the head with a board - MS picked up the board and some people said "Hey, they've got a board. Maybe trouble" and the people who didn't want to believe it said "Shhhhh, if they hear you they'll swing" and then people yelled "Lookout, they're swinging" and got out of the way and the people who stayed in the path said "You guys are the reason they're swinging" and then the board whacked the people in it's path and they blamed the people who told them the board was coming. I don't blame the people who got whacked for the actions of the whacker, but I sure question their judgment in not seeing it coming and thinking it would have hurt less if everyone else had stayed.

I just don't see figuring business trends and positioning oneself for the future to be an emotional issue. And advising others can be done for all kinds of motives, but sometimes the motive isn't as important as, ultimately, the quality of the advice.



>> all my life-and-death animosity in situations that were *really* life and death
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>Yeah, that truly is a factor, isn't it? Perhaps I did get overly bent out of shape, but I didn't say treasonous or enemy. I just found it insulting that he pegs part of the blame on the community. I don't think he has a leg to stand on there.