Peter,

I think your email is at the heart of all the nasty emails going back and forth here. I would bet that others here have the same feelings you do.

But there are others who are at the opposite extreme.

By stating that "His proclamation would have been acceptible and not so threatening - at least for me - if he had said that vfp is still in his heart and that he's just playing one more card" you are stating, at least to me, that you've developed a certain relationship with VFP as a developement tool.

I know for me, I don't have anywhere near that level of attachment to VFP. And obviously many others don't, as evidenced by the people who used to be on the VFP forum often, and now only show up on the .Net forum.

With the 2 different types of people, there are bound to be some heated arguements as we have witnessed.

PF



>>>>Perhaps he felt the need to rebel against the society in which he has made a decent living for quite a number of years. Perhaps it would have been better if he had kept his thoughts to himself.
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>>>Perhaps he should have kept his thoughts to himself simply because not only he has made a living thanks to vfp. Many others want to continue, they still think it's a viable product.
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>>He stated selling books to VFP programmers is no longer viable.
>>He never said VFP cant be used to develop database software.
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>Why this reaction, Dave? Did I say that he says that vfp can't be used to develop database software? No, I didn't say that, of course not. Perhaps you should rephrase.
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>But here, at this point, I indeed want to say that Whil has suggested that vfp is nearly dead, not explictly suggested, but implictly he did suggest that.
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>His proclamation would have been acceptible and not so threatening - at least for me - if he had said that vfp is still in his heart and that he's just playing one more card.