>Mike,
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>Sure.
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>Why don't you also offer to work for nothing so the product you develop or help develop may be able to be offered at a lower cost and thereby get a greater marketshare. <g>
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>IOW, who pays for the salaries of the current VFP developers? Microsft? Well, then all you've done is make VFP more dependent upon other groups in Microsoft who will only see the cash drain as a threat to their product(s). How charitable do you think they will be about this? ALl you're doing here is playing accounting games it seems.
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>Have I missed something?


Are you suggesting that the profit from the sales of VFP alone is not enough to support its development costs?

If profits are enough then MSDN subscriptions are an unecessary expense to those who use only VFP. If profits aren't enough then VFP is on life support and will die quickly when MS "cuts off its air supply".

But, even if development on VFP ceases, or is 'folded into' VS (or even the kernel :-) folks will continue using their copies of VFP for years.
JLK


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>>How about giving owners of VFP7 a 100% credit (of what they spent on VFP7) toward the cost of an MSDN subscription? That way, the VFP developer would feel like they made their loyalty to VFP clear.
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>>>We want people to upgrade to VFP, and we are promoting VFP via MSDN Subscrptions and will continue to do so. VFP works great with VS .NET, more and more VFP developers are using ASP.NET with VFP for example. MSDN Subscriptions is a great value for obtaining products and tools beyond VFP only.