Check out yesterday's slashdot article about PHP5 vs ASP .NET. The article and the comments are both appalling. If you're going to slam a product, at least have the decency to know facts about it first.
Some of my favorites:
- The licensing costs for .NET are too high. (Cause you all know the .net framework costs so much to download, and webmatrix costs an arm and a leg)
- A comparison between php code and .net code doing some oracle stuff in the article. The sample code for the two examples doesn't do the same task yet the author construes it as a fault in .NET.
- The article itself is hosted by oracle... that immediately makes me trust its contents.
- The usual OSS goo about how wonderful it is that PHP is free where Microsoft isn't.
And the best one of all:
- If you use a great GUI tool like visual studio, you're just hiding the fact that you're an incompetent programmer because you don't type everything in text pad.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/1230205
How is it that I'm having difficulty finding a contract when buffoons like this have jobs?