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>>I think that KenL is doing a very fine job too. Yet I still wish that he'd find the way to advertise VFP to the non-converted and most especially to IS decision-makers. There are things that I even wish that God had done a better job on < s >.
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>I wish for that too, but it's not going to happen. No matter what you, I or anyone else says. Ken has done a great job, but the writing is on the wall. VFP is going to be around for awhile. How long? I don't know. If Ken knows whether or not a new version is coming out after version 8, he is not at liberty to say. Will demand for VFP continue to drop? Yes. Is anyone going to change that? No.

I'm confident that VFP will be around for a long while yet.
Many of us, though, don't accept, headache and all, that it is ordained that "demand for VFP continue to drop" and we believe that there are ways that that might be changeable.

I accept that it is clear that MS is unwilling to help in this regard, and that is their prerogative. But that doesn't mean that increasing the demand for VFP is outright impossible. It may well be, but until and unless possible ideas are explored, who can say for sure.

As concerns the morality issue, I do have concerns about many things that I understand MS to be doing. I generally read such criticism with interest but keep opinions/conclusions to myself.

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