>So Compuserve is not a business?? Microsoft is not a business?? Even 'free' forums have ulterior motives, I should think, even if it is only to help to promote themselves as skilled developers.

What does this have to do with what we were talking about?

>Funny that I've heard you and some others quickly defend MS' decisions and policies as being "good business decisions" or simply "business decisions" (implying that it was good (for them)).

Why exactly is that funny in the context of the message that you replied to?

>I wonder how much of the REAL 'problem' that "some people have" is really related to the explusion of some parties from the UT?

You may want to research this more before you make accusations like that.