I really enjoyed reading your thoughts and have learned from them. With all the grumbling evident on the forums of Spider and Noront, I started wondering why? First off, I'm like most here. I'd like some news too and the silence has been " deafening!!! " . I am coming to the conclusion you are suggeting here........perhaps there are serious discussions going on. I came to this from comments a few writers have made. They claim to have spoken with " some in the know " and that in two to four months we will be rewarded. These are respected writers by me. I lean to their arguments and expect, if things work out, we are all going to be well rewarded. There might be a very good reason for the silence we have been suffering through.