>Nobody questioned your experience or right to participate. In fact, the opposite is true: you continue to challenge the right of others to participate. As for pledging loyalty to Fox with every breath- where did that come from?
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>Sorry to have to post like this but I keep hearing suggestions that VFPers behave in a certain fashion, when in fact the problem tends to be NET converts provoking/contriving situations about which they then complain. Why?
First, I speak only for myself, my own words and my own sins (as I get older I find that in itself is overly time-consuming.)
I am not a .NET "convert". That's what I meant about pledging loyalty to The Fox. I have added .NET to the tools available to me, I think it is a lot of fun to learn something new that a whole lot of people have put a whole lot of time into making available. I personally took a very large financial hit over MS decision to just let Fox die. So what? I took a big hit over decision made at Enron and a lot of other places. Life is hard <s>
I don't suggest anything about "VFPers". I object to anybody trying to turn ignorance into a virtue. I personally don't give a damn about Fox or .NET or MS accept insomuch as I find them intellectually or financially stimulating.
I pretty much don't care what other people use for their professional tools and I'm pretty sure anybody who is any good isn't terribly influenced by anything other than their own, hand-on experiences and efforts.
I also don't spend 5 minutes stewing about evil MS and how they've ruined my life and how I can't "trust" them. I don't want a daddy or mommy, just a company that offers things I can use or not use and take my own chances like a big boy.
I like some of the people here and I have known some for a long time. ( though increasingly my friends seem to have tired of this and gone on to other things ) I think it should be possible to share experiences as developers without having to be overly sensitive to the fears of people who don't want to hear it. If there is one thing my life experiences have taught me, it is that however absolutely right I am about everything, I am easily ignored <bg>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
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Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
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