>I don't agree. [...] And so I direct people away from Microsoft solutions I don't doubt there is a narrower tech audience (e.g. HN) that would base tech stac

>I don't agree. [...] And so I direct people away from Microsoft solutions I don't doubt there is a narrower tech audience (e.g. HN) that would base tech stack strategy on which company has the most 404 errors but my comment was specifically responding to the author's use of "generally". I interpreted "they generally lose confidence in the owner of the server" -- as making a claim about the psychology of the general public non-techie websurfers. TBL had an intuition about that but it didn't happen. Yes, people are extremely annoyed by 404 errors but history has shown that websurfers generally accept it as a fact of life. In any case, to followup on your perspective, I guess it's possible that somebody avoided C# because the Microsoft website has too many 404 errors and chose Sun Java instead. But there were lots of broken links in sun.java.com as well (before and after Oracle acquisition) so I'm not sure it's a useful metric.