>Put another way, while it is true that the market for .NET is far more vast, MS IDE's for .NET are improving at a much faster rate, and the future potential for .NET appears to be very bright, it doesn't mean a hill of beans to an independent/corp. working with another language/framework/paradigm that has a workable business model, sustained growth, and future prospects well into the future. Conversely, if you are an out of work developer, experiencing a sustained decline in revenue due to a drop in demand, or can reliably forecast a significant decline for your current skillset in the next 5 years (ratio of supply vs demand must be considered... a drop in demand with a similar drop in supply will cancel each other out), you could be a fool for not considering .NET as a possibility and you are a fool if your reasons are based on biases you have against it or Microsoft in general, or you're just plain scared of change.
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>In the end, extremes should be avoided, the truth lies somewhere in the middle, and bad advice is just that, no matter the source.

Well said.