>>No, seriously, i don't care if they advertise here or post anything. But to expect to take no flak for it is a little bit unrealistic. It's like going to a .NET forum and sermonizing that they make the switch to Open SOurce ...
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>Well, I generally use SharpDevelop (Open Source) intead of VS.NET, and I even present at Microsoft using it. Nobody complained... yet. ;-)

Martin,

Why do you use SharpDevelop? Only because it's free or are there other reasons?