Terry O`Nolley wrote: I didn't want you to look bad by saying something so silly and I wanted to give the chance to recant. LOL - I've been told to recant in a religious forum before, but never in a programming one. Terry O`Nolley wrote: I still don't see how VB6 fails to do that. I'd have thought you'd be the first one able to recognise rhetoric around here. VB6 is a programming language in the same way that Baywatch Nights was a TV program, by the skin of it's teeth and the narrowest of definitions. Terry O`Nolley wrote: I don't know that they do. I just said that they disincentivize in general. Ah, so you're making it up as you go along ? Excellent. Terry O`Nolley wrote: They would have to be marketing idiots to not do so. Every other successfull company knows to do this. It is a very basic marketing tactic. Sure - if I make cars, it's in my interest not to sell too many parts for my old models, because I want people to need a new car. Microsoft almost certainly no longer sell VB6, or promote it. However, I don't see car manufacturers as either likely or even able to stop a second hand car yard from selling used cars, any more than Microsoft is likely to try and bully this site into not supporting VB6. Had such bullying occured successfully, you'd think that old VB6 articles would also be pulled. Terry O`Nolley wrote: My question is how do you know they don't? What makes you think that MS has made the conscious decision to not engage in this common marketing tactic? Unless you can explain a meangingful way in which Microsoft could stop Code Project from running VB6 articles, despite their desire to do so, this conversation is dumb. I don't see any way they can do this legally, and it makes far more sense to me that they simply decided to stop supporting an outdated product. The site is getting to a point where the number of articles makes it hard to search for things at times, and there will be more people looking for VB.NET articles who won't want VB6 stuff coming up in their searches. Christian I have drunk the cool-aid and found it wan and bitter. - Chris Maunder
