>Mark,
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>Now that the dust has settled and tempers may have cooled, how are you feeling about FoxFire? is the charging for new releases a usual thing with them? I'm considering purchasing FoxFire! and am just reading about it here and other places.

I still use it, but my complaint was the way they define and have handled their releases. I had issues with 6.00 that really needed to be addressed and were not. They have now released a MAJOR version update that went from 6.0 to 6.02. To me that is a minor update. There are a ton of new features that are terrific and they are charging for this update.

They advertised version 6.0 as a VFP 6 [or 7?] version yet almost all their UI were remnants of FPW2.6. The UI in that version when run under VFP 6/7 looks bad. I paid dearly for a VFP version and got a wizard converted version which really sucks. The 6.02 version, from what I have read, has its UI [and code] fully in VFP now. My gripe is this should have been part of the free upgrade to 6.01 or 6.02 along with the bug fixes I reported to them, and the major upgrade version should have been something like 6.1 or 6.2.

I really wish Doug Hennig had continued with his Stonefield Reports to give these guys some competition, but I understand why Doug did not. As it is now, FoxFire's only competition is Crystal Reports so they can basically get away with these questionable practices.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this up. I am now p'o-ed all over again. < bg >