>The burdon of the long-term health of Fox is on you, the customer, and not on Ken Levy. Buy and promote the product.

The long-term health of a developer tool like Fox depends on it being a great product.

Customers (developers) do not own VFP and can't change it; only Microsoft can. Only Microsoft can ensure it remains healthy, IOW by making sure it remains a great product.

Any product that fails to make a profit or at least break even is, by definition, no longer great, and deserves to die. However, the failure is due to the product no longer being great, NOT because the customer failed to buy a product that Microsoft mistakenly believes is still great.

I'm at a loss why you and Ken put the "burden" on the "customer". It annoys free-enterprise types who believe, "If we build it, they will come". It seems Microsoft would rather, "If they come, we will build it". I hope that this attitude is not pervasive in MS but with MS's drive to a subscription model I fear it might be. It kills incentive, the backbone of free enterprise.

On the topic of Ken-abuse, it's unfortunate but understandable. VFP users have practically no information on how many users there are, if those numbers are growing, how close VFP7 sales are to giving the green light for VFP9 development, etc. It just seems so frustrating for Ken to have to stonewall on this sort of information when he has historically been so community-oriented.