>The difference, Ken, is that I have never been paid by Microsoft. I use their tools because of my choice, and my choice only.
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>Recently I was approached by a .NET component vendor to join their speaker bureau. They would pay part of my T&E to various events if I put one slide promoting their products in my slide deck. I told them that I could not unless I was using their products, which at the time they asked me, I had been evaluating. I since I have decided to use their product. Now, their offer to pay my T&E may have persuaded me to use their product over a competitor, it may not have. But, I have not promoted them in anyway here on the UT and do not intend to do so unless someone asks about them specifically or needs a capability that their components have. And even then, I may include links to competitor products.
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>But, what I won't do is throw in "That's one of the reasons I like product X' into a thread that has nothing to do with what that product does.

Your last point is valid and well taken. I think what you're suggesting that I don't inject discussions of Servoy in a thread about .NET unless it was already brought up in what I'm responding to. If I had a do-over, I would have not included that last section about Servoy in my post about the .NET strategy, and instead posted my comments about Servoy in a separate thread in the Servoy forum here.