>>I am not among the VFP is the best tool for everything crowd. I was actually looking for information on their open source policy when I came across the VFP comments. These comments are the owner's thinking, and when a guy bashes VFP, or any other product, on the basis of "snippets", I start to wonder.
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>He was not bashing other products. He was making a comparison. I think you are a little over-sensitive on this issue... Look cross-eyed, and one is bashing the product...< s >..
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>Again, One is not one's development tool....

Over-sensitive? Because I think his comment on "snippets" was off base? Yeah, right.

>>And my comments on open source and the Linux community still stand. This product will not take off with the Linux crowd if it is not open source. Even then, it has at least one serious competitor. See mySQL. And if it does not capture the Linux market, then what?
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>I don't know. I don't care at this point...
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>If coulda woulda shoulda were soup and nuts, I could feed the world forever..

And if ifs were fifths, we'd all be drunk.