>I would say Calvin contributed both in his job and outside his job. I am pretty sure MS did not direct what he blogged about or even what he presented at conferences. Probably the opposite - I'm pretty sure MS did not want another competitor to .NET and did not want him pushing the envelope with VFP but he did anyway..

Some may not even remember how active Calvin was in the FoxPro community before Microsoft lured him from Hawaii to Redmond. (Maybe all the sunshine was bothering his eyes <g>). He was the Sergey of his time.