I agree that we should act professionally. But we are talking about a consultant spreading false rumours. This is someone who has a responsibility to sort out rumour from truth. If he does not know that something is definitely going to happen (eg. the near-future demise of VFP), he should not be spreading the rumour. If he says "I have heard that..., but I haven't confirmed this rumour", well, that is fine.

Consultants/programmers/MIS professionals are quite often talking to people that regard them as computer gods, and because of this, we should make sure that what we are saying is actually the truth.

Anyways, I am just joking. I wouldn't really want to beat anyone with a dead fish. But I think your approach might end-up being too soft. A person that is giving clients incorrect information should be held accountable. I don't think the mistake should be taken too lightly.

Joe



>Jospeph,
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>>Yeah...and sometimes the appropriate manner is to BEAT THEM WITH A DEAD FISH for spreading stupid rumours.
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>Though I know we instinctively want to call names to people like this, but that is not buying any symphathy. We both have seen what the results are when someone has not the politeness to response and act in decent manner; Proffesionalism is.
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>It's one of the hard lessons i've learned in the past. Yelling and shouting is NOT going to help to solve the problem. Arguments, politeness, proffesionalism and reason is. There are some very respected people here on the UT who still have to learn this.
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>But you're quite right that some people don't want to know anything about FOX. I've met some system administrator who is nuts about VB and ACCESS. Now my app is becoming outdated (FPW 2.6) he wants to rewrite it in VB or ACCESS, Because VFP is not such a beatifull language. Especially these kind of people are very hard to convince that VFP is the rigth choice.
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>The main cause of this VFP is dead thinking, i think, is ignorance, whishfull thinking (if your a VB or ACCESS programmer), and the doubtfull marketing efforts of MS in the past.
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>Walter,