I love the phrase "Haters gonna hate." The more successful you or your product becomes the more haters you'll have. That doesn't only apply to software. Pick a

I love the phrase "Haters gonna hate." The more successful you or your product becomes the more haters you'll have. That doesn't only apply to software. Pick any 'classic' novel and check out the reviews on Amazon. 5% of them will be haters. Microsoft and Google haters wouldn't hate them at all if they were still scrappy startups that no one had heard of and that had achieved zero success. From my own experience, I released an app for creative writers 5 years ago that generated a lot of positive attention, as well as a bunch of haters on one very specific niche forum. The guys on this forum went so far as to dig up info about another Irishman with the same name as me who ended up in court for passing bad checks -- citing it as clear evidence of how I couldn't be trusted, and neither could any software I made. It bothered me for a whole day, then I decided never to waste my time reading that forum again. Having haters who hate you is a sign that you're achieving some measure of success.