Loyalty is long-term. Performance reviews, goals and bonuses are short-term. As we all should have learned in Psych 101, the nearer a consequence to the behavior, the stronger the consequence. The factory model (more widgets in the next 6 months) is 100 years old: think, Henry Ford. It's a sad fact that most tech companies are based on that 100-year old model.

Hank

>>http://reddevnews.com/articles/2011/05/19/microsoft-to-open-source-vb6.aspx
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>If these jackasses at microsoft really knew anything they would open source VB6 and VFP. They already killed the products and along with that, microsoft developer loyalty from most of those developers. The only way to fix that would be to open source them. These dipsh*ts like to float rumors around to see what people will say only to retract everything (a$$wipe$!!!).