Gérald,

It was not my intention to start a new thread, just to point to a wiki page where those people that think something found there could make sense to them might wonder about, add their comments, criticise it etc. I'm aware that many people don't want to hear a word about the future of FoxPro any more, and I don't want to bother them, that's why I tried to be as discrete and polite as possible when writing my message, in order to respect their feelings.

If you read the wiki page past "Before you go any further", you will notice that I took all care to not be misunderstood and wrote: "At this point I must explain that what I'm trying to do is not to write another text complaining about FoxPro's dark destiny. If that was my intention I wouldn't have chosen the title "The Product That Won't Die".. So, it is not "another thread on this subject", as you said.

Let me point you that there is nothing written there (at least it seems to me) that could lead to comments like "We all know that...", just because that wiki page is not a "complain" text. I wrote: "I don't want to fuel even more those discusions and it is not my intention to criticize or offend anybody". Think I was very clear in this regard.

About scaring people, think that my intention was just the oposite, there you can read, at the end of the text: "I don't believe FoxPro will be discontinued, ever..." and "...calm down.".

OTOH, I wanted to put the main focus in the idea of "Who's complaining? Who'll loose?" (I don't recall this been discussed before, here or elsewhere) and in the outline of the FoxPro community to serve as a basis for the ending questions. Think those questions are worth a discussion and could bring new arguments to it. To highlight this idea I even added "That's the point!".

Of course that text is far from being perfect, and it was not my intention to have it as an ending truth. I'm sorry if I failed to pass my message and would be happy if you could give another chance to the text and, please, read it again, now taking in account those remarks I've done.

My intention is not to make people leave FoxPro, but to bring new developers to it.

Regards,

Fernando

PS. I'm happy you liked the title, at least it seems you didn't dislike the whole thing < s >


>(By the way this msg was not only to Fernando)
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>At least the title was not too negative this time....
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>But why starting another thread on this subject?
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>We all know that MS will not market Visual FoxPro outside of the current developper base.
>We all know that Visual FoxPro 8 will enter beta soon.
>We all know that Visual FoxPro 8 will be release somewhere in 2003.
>We all know that if MS make enough money with the product, it will continue to develop it.
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>Do you know that by scaring peoples with this kind of threads, the sales of Visual FoxPro will sooner or later drop so down that it cross the profit line that keep the product alive?
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>Why MS or Ken should talk about Visual FoxPro 8,9 or 10 when all they have to sell was Visual FoxPro 7 and MSDN?
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>With Visual FoxPro 8 around the corner, you have at least a couple of years of Visual FoxPro works to do...

>My 2c