Hi Jeff,

>The UT management could stand to learn a few simple principals of micro-econ price theory. It's bad enough having to subsidize the UT DeadBeats, but now management wants more for a system that is downright painful to use? I fail to see any sound thinking with this.

Subsidize? This is ridiculous. I think it's great that people new to VFP or needing support without having deep pockets can come here and get decent functionality without layout out a dime. Could a better pricing model be worked out? Probably. But to eliminate all free functions is assinine. Look at it another way: People like Cetin Basoz who never ask a question but help everyone...and he did it a long time before making MVP. Do you know how much $125 CDN translates to in Turkish? Or what about Dragan? Think he could have been around posting solutions from Serbia? Or several contributing members from Europe, South America. Do you think it's only deep-pocketed middle class Americans who contribute here and enrich everyone FAR beyond the price of PUTM.

Frankly, I think Michel comes up with a pretty fair system. May not be the best but, in general, it works. Sometimes I think everyone gets psychotic over the fact that the UT is a business and Michel can be expected to want to turn a profit.

>People come here to help or to be helped and, hopefully, everyone is learning something instead of being entertained by cheap looking interfaces that eat up bandwidth. The childish icons and the flags should be dumped as well as those silly individual pictures - particularly yours, John ;>).

I think they add mostly harmless fluff. Don't like it? Go to the programmer.exchange newsgroup.

>I'm going to walk my talk and walk unless something gets done about it.

So then walk. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.