Wilson Ng, of Wired Desktop has made an interesting observation about VFP. He was reviewing the MasFoxPro site (which is what the meat of his article is about) and noticed that most people who have signed the petition are from ‘developing’ countries. (As a side note: I don’t like the term ‘developing’, but anyway.)

The people who signed come from about 80different countries worldwide. It is especially noticeable that the tool is really popular in developing countries. If you note, there were only 341 programmers from the United States, 90 from Germany and 42 from United Kingdom who signed. In contrast, 479 developers from Russia, 280 from China, 294 from Argentina, 150 from Brazil, 156 from Peru and 109 from Ukraine signed petition.

I’ve always known VFP to have a strong international presence. But where are all the US developers? Where are their signatures?