>>I think it's wrong for those who get upset that others are posting that type of information.
I see people getting upset about deliberate overt rudeness, not information.
I saw Rod Paddock post a study on dotNET performance right here. He did not call people names and scoff, so he did not receive any such reaction. Ask him.
There's also a calm thread going right now on UT about converting from VFP to Java or dotNET. No abuse, no invective.
QED.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1