>>FWIW, I don't think it's an issue. I welcome people who mention their products.
Refusing on the grounds of "advertizing" seems to be a form of censorship, especially if it's from others who make $ from the alternatives they propose. Sauce for the goose etc. Plus it previously was judged OK for VFP Conversion vendors to initiate threads for advertising purposes- iow blatant advertisement, not an in-context response as happened here.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
