Pissed Off Again.....
What follows is the contents of an e-mail that I sent to MIcrosoft Watch
regarding their misquote of an MS employee. Crap like this really makes me
angry. I doubt that it will ever do any good, but maybe you guys can all send in
enough "tips" like this that they post a retraction,
My name is Robert McLaws. I am president of my own software
company, and a moderator on the official ASP.NET Forums. I have to object to
your statement that the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit is a blogger. You are dead
wrong, and you took the MS employee you quoted WAY out of context. If you had
done your research, you would have found that one of the MS developers
responsible for making the ASP.NET Forums, Rob Howard, was building a blogger a
LONG time ago, and it may be released as open source sometime in the future.
As to the rest of your article, it is obvious that you are jaded in your
outlook to MS. If you had *ANY* inkling about the developer community, you would
know that MS treats their developers like gold, and MS employees are CONSTANTLY
answering questions on the Forums. And while the Forums are another program
built by MS employees, it is NOT an MS product and NOT supported by Microsoft in
any way. Everyone lambasts MS about how they won't ever release anything open
source, and yet MS-employees have built a stripped-down version of VS.NET,
Forums, a system for hosting ASP.NET pages WITHOUT IIS, and tons of free
controls.
Your attitude towards MS is decidedly liberal. It's people like you that
spread half-truths and misquotes that give MS a negative reputation that it
doesn't always deserve.
PS: Think I'm full of crap? This was in a REAL
blog, with corroboration to match:
http://dotnetweblogs.com/PMarcucci/archive/02192003.aspx#2663