Terry,

I respect your right to express your view-point. With that in mind, you should respect the rights of others to express their viewpoint. Steve holds the wiki out to be a forum for intellectual discourse and to be a knowledge base. There is no question that Steve owns the medium; but he does not own the content. Ownership vests with the author of the material.In fact, I believe he makes that very concession in one of the wiki pages. Steve has a number of theories that are not supported by observable fact - and I took him to task on that. Instead of addressing my points - he deleted them. That should tell you a lot about:

1. How strongly he feels in the merits of his argument and ;
2. How on the mark my points were.

The bottom line, if you want your material to be acceptable to Steve vis a vis the Wiki - you need to be a Steve Black syncopant - you need to agree with what he says - unconditionally.

If Steve wants to remove content - there is nothing I can do about it. All I can do is draw attention to it. You have acknowledged the issue - and that is all I was after. Whether you agree or disagree with my viewpoint/opinion, I don't care. I do not think reasonable people can reconcile the wiki's stated mission and the censorship that goes on.

Tell you what - why don't you tell the guy who just posted a message on the UT about not being able to find work in D/FW and tell him everything is rosey - that Fox development is in no worse position that anything else - that it is a niche and that in reality - he is in a "enviable" position....

Believe it or not - a positive message about .NET is not tantamount to being a negative message about Fox.

Last word - my point of view in no way dampens your prospects. If your prospects are soley rooted in Fox - your prospects are dampened regardless of whether I express my opinion. I was banned from the UT for a year. Tell me Terry - did your fortunes turn in that year? Did the status of Fox in the eyes of the outside world grow in stature? I don't think it did. If you want to blame somebody - blame MS for not promoting the tool. And - blame yourself for not preparing for what is a blinding flash of the obvious.



>>Like it or not JVP is a valuable member of the community, and to some his opinions are valuable.
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>Sometimes, just sometimes, JVP sounds more like a .NET (or, add your own non-vfp product here) salesman, and less like a guy that is helping promote the goals of the VFP community. We have got to promote ourselves and our tools.
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>A point of view that that dampens my prospects is not helpful - no matter how close the oracle got to god to learn that truth. I don't want to stop thinking for myself and JUST do it JVPs way. JVP should recognize this. There are no converts here. It's a delusion, a theatre of the absurd; a hopless study in vanity to believe and speak as if there are! Plus - it breaks my heart (can you hear violins too?:-)
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>On another note:
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>If you removed the beard and mustache from your UT image, it would look like the last image I saw of JVP! Are you sure you're not a poser!