>>I am a very dissatisfied customer. M$ bought Fox for all the wrong reasons - to get hold of Rushmore, to have a horse in its stable to parry Borland's Dbase IV, and (the reason it kept developing it) to get hold of half a million programmers who'd be buying their tools on and on. While some of these had loyalty to the owner of the product, many (including me) are loyal only to the product itself, the gruntlement (now a word!) being proportional to the treatment of the product by its owner.
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>IMO those were all valid business reasons. Cold maybe, but just business. No company is in business to be our eternal pals.

Yet the same company expected us to remain their customers and keep buying programming tools from them.