>>I am done with this thread.
Why? You asserted that the rules were set to advantage the challenger. Twice you've been asked to justify that. Instead you scold various posters (including me) and then say you're done.
I thought you said that this was an opportunity to see a positive result. That can't happen if some people believe the rules are unfair. Clearly some people believe the initial rules were unfair. Some also believe that the respondent's implementation rules are set to handicap the challenger. Both sets of views need to be resolved before a useful challenge can proceed.
If you believe that the initial rules are unfair to the dotNET respondent but that the respondent's implementation proposals are fair to the challenger, can you please explain that position.
"... 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
