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A "petition" has been circulating around the Internet that is trying to gather enough signatures to get Microsoft to reverse their decision to not continue development on FoxPro. I have not signed the petition and have been questioned as to my motives. I have even been called some nasty names because of my stand.

Doug, Alex, and Rick have posted about their reasons.

I'm not going to post here my reasons for not signing (the above links list some of them). I stated on the UT why I wasn't signing and then called on it. Frankly, it's no one's business why I'm not signing and because I don't want to sign should not call in to play my ethics, my feelings about the Fox community, FoxPro in general, or my relationship with Microsoft.

I will say that no one inside or outside at Microsoft asked me to not sign. Being an MVP in no way means that I just go along for the ride and agree with everything Microsoft says. I blogged about the independence of MVPs here.

Because I don't want to sign does not mean I don't agree with the cause. Those of you who are saying that people that don't sign, particularly MVPs, are just following the Microsoft line and can't decide for ourselves, and then our loyalties are questioned, shame on you.