"The Product That Won't Die" (Article: VFP Wiki)

Jerry Kreps had a good eye for the future. From the wiki:

It won't die the way DOS doesn't die.... people will go in using the last standard release for years, but useage will tail off exponentially until only a few are using it. My predicition is that Visual FoxPro development will cease sometime between 5 and 10 years from now, if not sooner, probably about the time the next WinOS comes out. Longhorn, isn't it? The new OS will be so different that Visual FoxPro won't fit in at all. To use Visual FoxPro folks will have to stay with XP or Win 2 K or Win9X, something that MS is forcing people NOT to do by means of 'security' patches. data format changes, etc..., or update to .NET compatible languages and interfaces. By then all the 3rd party links to .NET will have gone beyond the embrace and extend mode, and into the extinquish mode, leaving .NET developers totally in a pay per use licensing scheme.

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From my POV their efforts with the Visual FoxPro community are such that they are treating the Visual FoxPro community as geriatrics and the Universal Thread forum as a 'nursing home', attended by some big name nurses, where some patients will die and others will move to .NET & C# (get well). That is what CoDe is all about too.