I am tired of seeing people whine about their JavaOne proposals being rejected including Mary (from Sun) and others.

I personally find the article by Richard Grimes on the state of .NET technologies very informative. It is comical to note some of the rants against him in the post and in the comments at https://weblogs.asp.net/danielfe/archive/2005/02/22/378343.aspx Some of it are plain hilarious like: And really, let's face it, every programming language has a problem. Yes, .Net isn't the best, compared to the others, but it is pretty good, as in easy application development. Still, it's coming up. For me, I hate Java, and that's my opinion. Unfortunately, it has a lot of technical advantage compared to .Net, so I MUST use it. I dreadful fate. Some comments on his encrypting the email, and so he not a believable guy! It however never occured to him when he was writing those incredible articles and book on .NET technologies. I really pity these guys.