>>I'm trying to say that we as developers should stop arguing, and work on de development of VFP tools. Don't keep fancy routines for ourselves, but share them with many developers and maybe they will improve them.
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>Well, I have to agree with what others have said. I have a VFP samples website that is primarily dedicated to VFP and OLE but has a few other sample files. Rick Strahl gives away some of his stuff - which is very powerful.
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>Just off the top of my head: John Petersen is always around to clean up someone's (my) spaghetti code, David Frankenbach, George Tasker, etc. and there are countless others that are ready willing and mostly able to assist. The difference between Linux and VFP is that the developers were working on the core OS, and here we try to do workarounds i.e. foundation read.< G >

I agree with lots of what has been said here. Before VFP could follow the linux model, the underlying code for VFP would have to be released into the public domain which probably won't happen in this millenium :-)