Sigh, once again we see the sad and sorry state of open source adoption in .NET. The choice seems to be to first have a taste of the swill Microsoft makes avai

Sigh, once again we see the sad and sorry state of open source adoption in .NET. The choice seems to be to first have a taste of the swill Microsoft makes available and then fall back to the NIH philosophy when that doesn't cut it. Of note here, is that nHibernate, one of the strongest ORMs for .NET (and basically what EF is attempting to copy features from) was not even mentioned or considered. It's this whole "but there's open source in there, it might touch me" attitude I find ridiculous. Obviously I'm making assumptions here, but any discussion of ORM in .NET that doesn't even bring up nHibernate is suspect to me.