>> If any other companies out there would like to bind together and contribute toward the costs of developing Visual FreePro full-time, it may become doable.
I'm no good to you for the C/C++ work any more... but you say "costs." What sort of $ are you contemplating and what exactly would it be spent on?
"... 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
