What if there was a NEW vb6

[Shaggy Hiker]

The cool thing, especially in the United States, is if you do not like how a person/group of people is/are operating a business you can:
1) Take majority ownership and make some changes
2) Complain to the company
3) Create you own business with a similar product to your liking

I'm sure all the money from all the users of VBForums combined is not enough to take majority ownership of Microsoft, so number 1 is out. You and several others have repeatedly complained to Microsoft, yet they have taken a stance and they are very clear that they are sticking to it.

Really your only viable alternative is the last suggestion. If you do not like the semi-open support of VB6 and you do not like VB.Net, then create your own version of VB6 and market/support it the way you would want to. Other than yourself, who/what is stopping you from doing that?

Hey! You are ripping off the final chapter of Battle Programming 3.0. The chapter on How to Destroy a Company that annoys you (or something to that effect) covered this more succinctly: Provide the same service for free.

Here you are trying to cover the same ground that has already been thoroughly covered by existing literature. Moti should be annoyed, but his Barkski is worse than his biteski.