But why is it I can say in my posts that MS has shipped some products that clearly sucked and none of your hated MS salesmen even say boo about it? It would seem on the surface to be the same message. Except where I let it drop at that you keep going and accuse those who use MS of being dupes and making bad business decisions. You see you're not satisified with just criticizing MS, you have to turn it on the users and the people that make their living as VARs and OEMs in the MS world. And of course there's your refusal to consider evidence to the contrary.
This was a very typcial Harr thread. Starts off ith a long article which you add a request for information to at the end. People start providing that information. You tell them that information is invalid for whatever crack pot reason you come up with. The people that started off thinking this was gonna be a discussion are now irritated because it turns out it's a soapbox and contrary opinions will not be tolerated. They try to defend their position. You insult their integrity professionalism and ability, telling them they're dupes or they're lieing or they're a liability to their company. They get mad. And by post 75 you're whining about how the MS people can't take any criticism.
I don't doubt things don't get ugly when you criticize Oracle or Sun, probably because you're willing to hear contrary evidence that supports them. But you're not willing to hear that when it comes to MS, and in refusing to hear it you always turn things personal.
But why is it I can say in my posts that MS has shipped some products that clearly sucked and none of your hated MS salesmen even say boo about it? Because you're an established MS-only person, you're "on the reservation".
It isn't what is said, obviously (just like my comment wasn't insulting, but *I* insult you by my daring to speak), it's who says it, with MS-only folks. Just like B2k follow me to threads about things like music and continues to insult and flame me. It isn't what I've said about music, it's that I'm "off the reservation", a 'Java' guy that threatens his 'MS-only' world.
Look above -- I've complimented .NET a few dozen times here. Didn't matter to you, or any of the rest of the MS-only folks. This entire thread was to be an up-beat, positive discussion about .NET. But I posted it, so in come the flames.
Try that with a different screen name they don't know, and watch what happens. Heck, B2k obviously has a full-time job combing the boards for any negative re