One of the problems with this article is that Joel tries to divide the argument into the idealist side and the pragmatist side. But there's never just two sides

One of the problems with this article is that Joel tries to divide the argument into the idealist side and the pragmatist side. But there's never just two sides. For instance, there's long-term pragmatists and short-term pragmatists. I think the pro-MS people are mostly short-term pragmatists.