Michel,

Note also that this is volunteered work for those who wish to benefit of it. We don't expect everyone to use it or like it. If you use it, great! If you like it, double great! We just try do our best. Those who saw it before the release, all agreed that this is a great image for promoting the development environment. So, we went with that for the first release and that is a great start, IMHO.

You try to do others a favour and do get beaten up. Funnily that's what I experience often.

What You've done is most honorable, and just because *You* did it we do have a logo at all.
AFAIK Your's is the only one so far. All the others (me included) just said "don't like it" without
having a different - not necessarily better - solution at hand.

Still, having this one option is much better than having nothing, particularly for the discussion
about it. Most people are better in saying what they dislike (and somtimes why) than in presenting
completely new ideas.

Design is a process and will never satisfy everyone. Luckily taste differs from person to person. It
often takes many steps, and I think one could not expect the first overnight-creation would be the
perfect one. Sometimes it takes me much more time playing with the looks of a form than with its
functionality. And at the end of the day I'm asking myself "What've You done today? Just this simple
form? 12 hours for *that*?"

The discussion showed - and that is the important part - that a lot of us are standing behind the
product and are willing to participate in its promotion. Now - and it is, as You already pointed out,
also a legal problem - I think it is Microsoft's task to support us promoting their product.

MS is promoting VFP as if they felt ashamed they have it. There were times I was surprised not
to find it under *GAMES* on the MS-website (it has not been under developer-tools). Today, all
You see when clicking on *developer tools* is .net. If You think "there once was more?!" and pay
enough attention You might find the second link *developer tools* and see! All the other languages.
And (luckily) VFP among them.

Michel, thanks for the effort so far.