What about CSMA COLA makes people flame 1809

The main purpose of an advocacy forum is for the pros and the cons to voice an opinion, eh? Certainly a newbie who has adopted linux isn't going to post here for any useful reason, if he needs help, he'll post in a support forum. I know that some of the pro-Windows folk have a need to vent their frustrations regarding the events that nettle them in their jobs that involve creation of Windows application code. These people are constantly annoyed by short sighted managers and others in their organizations that constantly read articles about some mythical need for "cross platform capability" and use up a developer's valuable surfing time with the task of investigating the effort of moving some successful Windows application to linux. The project invariably dies, but only after a lot of irritation.

It would seem that the best way to prevent this is to nip it in the bud, so to speak, and so they practice their presentations in this forum. It may look like flaming in many cases, but that too is the result of frustrations in having to talk to idiots.

The most helpful aspect of the cola forum is that it is a source of tons of quotes from linux advocates that show the folly of trying to make a business out of selling software to such clowns. The marketers groove on this immediately and side with the developers in getting any linux initiative off the street quickly before it becomes more of a nuisance.

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