>>questioning the motives of those who are promoting VB with near religious furvor - that makes me "dogmatic"?<<
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No, it calls your manners into question. If you think they are wrong on a technical level, fine. Maybe you're right. That's not the issue. If you have reason to believe they are part of some sinister plot, either state your reasons or be civil enough to avoid innuendo. These are people whose professional reputation relies on the assumption they are dealing in good-faith.
I do not question your motives. I'm sure you believe what you are saying and your "sources". I just think that if you are going to imply someone giving technical advise is actually manipulating their friends and collegues for underhanded reasons it is incumbent on you to either state your sources or keep it to yourself.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
