[bryanrasmussen]

from my experience it's:

You think the public facing representatives (management etc.) are morons, because

you think their strategy for working in the same space sucks unless

you think your company is totally blowing it and you are on your way out

but you don't think their programmers are morons so much (except when you examine site and it performs worse than yours for obvious reasons that you fixed on yours) but

if they roll out a really cool feature you can implement in your product you will write code to implement that feature and not wish you had their code because anyway your stuff is incompatible codebases unless

you get bought by them or they get bought by you or you both merge because you are in fact compatible and this way something beautiful will emerge

yeah right.

[nullc]

Your stuff stinks because of annoying tradeoffs and business constraints, their stuff stinks because they're idiots.