[cellarius]

Originally Posted by In Omnibus

That argument is a non sequitur. It's like leaving your job with Dodge because you loved the old Charger but hate the new one. vB4 developers could have kept right on developing for vB4.

You see where "job" and "free addons" makes your anology kind of... weird? I can't remember ever being paid either by IB or by anyone that used my addons. You see how I get to choose to spend my spare time in an environment that I like?

The fact that many of them were unable to grasp the API in vB5

And that's exactly where people will start rolling on the floor laughing. But you're welcome to a little spiteful remark now and then

Many coders left without any explanation whatsoever.

Ah, you see, people don't have to explain themselves, and they don't have to do so here.

At least one left for health reasons. One passed away. One continues to update its vB4 products while refusing to work on its vB5 products. Some have become vB staff members and have far less time for developing and maintaining modifications. There are far more reasons why vB4 modifications are out of date than just "vB5 was garbage when it was released."

Of course there are more reasons. But that does not disprove that for some, and I say many, probably even most, product quality and company behaviour was the main reason. Nothing of what you list explains that "coincidental" mass exodus of coding talent in a rather short timeframe or the overall quietness of vb.org and vb.com if compared to earlier years. Exceptionally funny is your mentioning of coders who got employed by IB. That wouldn't be many of the core staff that got treated shabilly by IB right on this very site just a few weeks ago, and therefore stepped down? But of course, that was entirely their fault.

Anyway, I'm out of here. Although it's kinda funny