>the end of development came due to lack of revenue stream.
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>Why did people stop buying? There are lots of paying developers who believe that a manufacturer dooms a product if they subject it to years of "damning with faint praise" and negative profiling which is what happened to VFP starting in 1995. IMHO it's amazing VFP lasted so long which has to be a tribute to customers (us) and to a small group inside MS that kept VFP going long after it was supposed to have starved to death.

Exactly. You hear it with some frequency but it is misguided to blame FoxPro's demise on customers. Customers began drifting away from VFP for valid reasons. It's the obligation of the vendor to put out a product customers still want to buy, not of customers to blindly keep on buying. Once you peel off the emotional layer, this is just standard, rational consumer behavior.