By his own admission, in a message here TODAY, JohnP said that he got off the VFP bandwagon 7+ years ago.

I should expect that one day he will be vindicated! My question to you is... is "vindication" 8+ years after the fact (and possiblly as much as 20+ years) really "vindication"????

Jim

>I believe JVP is going to be vindicated in the long run. He was the first with enough guts to stand up and say what he saw as the "writing on the wall". He was tarred, feathered, scape-goated, hated, etc, because he wouldn't back down from what he believed. Any contrarian is hated and reviled even though they may be proved correct in the long run.
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>Why waste your breath? The die-hards here will never see the light, until the train flattens them in the middle of the track. Then they will stand up and wonder what that was and go back to their tried-and-true existence. Its safer not to take a risk...
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>>Hi Claude,
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>>I agree 100%.
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>>By the way, pretty soon now we will have the same, boring discussion here at UT again, with the UGOI, like JVP, Rod P. and other preaching how good dotNET is, but they are of course completely neutral, they really don't want to preach and ya-da-ya-da...! And they of course understand that we don't want to listen to their stuff, but since they have seen the light, they feel they simply must tell us over and over again. Where is Billy Graham? :-)
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>>>Sorry to jump in, but, why are you so offended everyone doesn't want to jump on the .NET bandwagon? Why is it so hard to understand that the people here like VFP and are happy there's a new version? The timing is bad for them because they're looking at new ways to use vfp or vfp and .NET together, not convert everything...
>>>>Mark,
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>>>>PMFJI...while I can understand the heightened sensitivity of the reactions here, can you explain in specific, concrete terms why the timing is so insulting?
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>>>>I'm sure you'd agree that endeavors in other areas shouldn't be delayed/postponed just because of what's going on with the VFP Beta.
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>>>>This conversation would be more productive if it veered away from these emotional, hazy, "j'accuse" operations to a more in-depth discussion of *why* so many feel offended. Based on what's been offered here, I don't see any connection.
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>>>>Kevin