It's pretty interesting to see that I'm still getting down-voted for posts that I think, at this point, do a fairly reasonable job of communicating their point,

It's pretty interesting to see that I'm still getting down-voted for posts that I think, at this point, do a fairly reasonable job of communicating their point, do it in a civil manager and pose a legitimate question re: expectations of the use of the open source paradigm in certain kinds of software. I wonder if it's really just because I'm saying something negative about a popular piece of software, and people exercise the downvote purely because they disagree rather than have quality objections?