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>JVP, one could easily apply this logic to oh so many of the high profile people who currently advocate dotNET. Does that "damn them with faint praise" too?
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>I don't think the situations are comparable at all. My opinions re: Whil's VFP/Linux issue are well documented. Whil's sole purpose for making the stink he has made was for publicity in order to sell books. His "Lifetime Achievement Award" nothwithstanding, Whil is about Whil. IMO, he has effectively hi-jacked the FoxTalk publication to suit his own purposes.
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>All the while, I will still contend Whil is a good businessman. It is interesting how many people actually bought into his rhetoric.
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>What is really interesting is that Whil will not publish Fox books anymore and nobody is commenting on that.

I'll comment on it! oooh me me me!
How many books on VFP can ya write (or publish)? I mean VFP hasn't really changed a great deal since 5.0. - Of course there has been SOME changes, but not anything as significant as say VB6 to VB.NET.
Even Ken Levy will say that since VFP is a 'mature' product, MS doesn't really try to get new users for it. So all these VFP developers - myself included - how many "new" books do we need for the same old thing?