the real irony is, that the heading Open Source Apps Should Start Innovating - Not Recreating (cli.gs) also made it to the front page. Charles H. Ferguson has

the real irony is, that the heading Open Source Apps Should Start Innovating - Not Recreating (cli.gs) also made it to the front page. Charles H. Ferguson has a nice take on this VB/.NET/Java(script)/HTML misery in his book ...not that I agree with him on some issues (like sw patents). But the one who has submitted the original article might know more, since he could have been around there around that time...