[steve8918]

I have to agree. The Internet somehow does create these weird pissing contests where people seem to want to show that they are cool and everyone else sucks. For example, in an internal mailing list where I work, there is currently a thread between two idiots over whether iPhone or Android is superior.

What a completely ridiculous waste of time!

The mature "elite" programmer knows that solving problems is more important than the underlying technology.

There was that article from pud a few weeks ago talking about "you won't like my back-end", where he details how he uses a Microsoft stack, including IIS. So many people were responding with how much better LAMP was, etc. But the funny thing is that pud has made more money and acquired more customers than 99% of the people who responded. He is solving customer problems and being rewarded with money, and not engaging in useless pissing contests over which technology is better, and I admire that.

[hokua]

LAMP is better than .NET because I dont need to buy Windows Server licenses to get going. That is a fair statement.

LAMP is better because only losers use stuff from MS. This is the sort of argument that you see alot of on the internet.

[MartinCron]

LAMP is better than .NET because I dont need to buy Windows Server licenses to get going.

A fair statement, but not exactly accurate :)

Even discounting the Mono stuff, there's always BizSpark or one of the cloud many providers that offer Windows/MSSQL hosting at a slightly increased price (essentially renting Windows Server licenses).

[nightski]

I don't like flame fests any more than you do, but honestly is making money always the most important factor? Especially in our profession there are far more rewarding goals than money.

[mattgreenrocks]

Getting things done is usually the most important factor in a business setting.

[lurker19]

No one here said it was.