>Whether you like it or not, Jim Nelson's point(s) are valid and stem from a genuine affection for VFP. Duffy bashes VFP as "not a real database" whenever he can; always with a smiley or a big grin or a joke of some description, so the casual lurker is never too sure if he *really* means it. Yet he is quite happy to take developer's $$$ to provide his VFP "award winning training". Duffy's message may be consistent but his motives remain somewhat suspect.

He isn't taking developer's $$$... they are giving it to him. There is a big difference. If he complains about VFP (and to the best of my knowledge, his complaints are about VFP as a data store, not the language itself), and people still want to pay him for VFP training, who's to blame?