>I have never cared for the argument that we in the developer community are responsible for promoting (or destroying) FoxPro. In fact there is a post in this thread now by Ken Levy in which he says negative comments on the UT were no factor in the decision to stop enhancing VFP.

Yes and no. That is, they could have been, indirectly, by setting the doom and gloom atmosphere here, and generally shooing away few potentially important people who could have been the critical mass against this dispersion. But then there was a constant influx of messages suggesting, proposing, advocating and sometimes pushing the "you're a fool if you don't jump in the dot net wagon" line. Don't remember if we had a month without at least one of such thread for the last six years.

Imagine playing chess in a club, where every week someone would say "crap, we should all better play bridge". How long would you keep coming back?