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From
16/02/1999 17:26:05
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
To
16/02/1999 12:29:04
Dave Nantais
Light speed database solutions
Ontario, Canada
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00185944
Message ID:
00188152
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21
>VFP 6.0 is being made to hold onto current developers of Foxpro, FPW ,and VFP.
>That is the unwritten rule that i suspect is being adhered to when you get this "promote VFP yourself" stuff. Full time VFP developers don't have the ability to promote a tool to non-VFP developers. Basically by asking you to "promote VFP yourself" this satisfies Microsoft's overall goal of holding onto current FPD,FPW, and VFP developers and code , and at the same time this stops VFP from directly competing with VB.
>
>These marketing omissions will just keep on happening because there is no way MS will have one of their own products directly compete with VB.
>
>of course by making it "our responsibility" to promote VFP it is then "our fault" if VFP does not climb to unprecedented levels of popularity ...

These words may lead to the conclusion that
- since M$ won't advertise VFP over VB and
- since M$ expects us to promote VFP
then
- we are implicitly expected to promote VFP over VB

May logic may fail, depending on the wind...

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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