>>In this case Tamar is one of the owners of the event.

1) She and two others stepped in when the last VFP conference was about to go under. She's shown more than once that she makes no $ from SWFox and it's common knowledge that running the conference is a community service.

2) Tamar was asked how to access a SWFox paper. There was a time when attending SWFox was the only way to get your hands on the papers. When this was queried at another forum, it was correctly observed that if papers were freely available, there would be less incentive to attend and soon there would be no conference and thus no new papers either. Maybe they've softened their stance, otherwise her answer is accurate AFAICS.

I'm hardly her fanboi but in fairness, it seems to me that Tamar's answer was in good faith, to somebody who at face value could benefit a lot by going to SWFox. I think it's mean spirited to assert otherwise, especially if your own answer to somebody wanting to master VFP is that it will be easier to use NET.