I joined Stack Overflow about 4.5 years ago and I was one of the top 10 all time users on Stack Overflow for a couple years or so, so I have seen my fair share

I joined Stack Overflow about 4.5 years ago and I was one of the top 10 all time users on Stack Overflow for a couple years or so, so I have seen my fair share of SO/EE arguments on the web. What's interesting is that not a single time I'd seen EE defended by anyone but its current or former employees. Also, the blog post mentions "I think their public, negative campaign against Experts Exchange was excessive, mean-spirited, and at the very least immature and silly. Admittedly, it worked – they’ve achieved their goal, and “death to EE” became the rallying cry." I don't really get this. Aside some joke-like mentions in the podcast or blog entries, Stack Overflow did not really do anything to harm EE specifically. They were just a better QnA platform and much closer to what users wanted. No one rallied against EE just to kill EE; whatever was done was to build a better QnA system and that succeeded. Experts Exchange is just something users don't want and it never reacted to the presence of Stack Overflow and Stack Overflow eventually ate their lunch in its entirety. Stack Overflow's mission was to become the wikipedia of programming questions, which meant EE-like sites would eventually die should SO becomes successful, but EE was never a specific target of a tactic or anything beyond joke-like verbal attacks. It was, however, a good model of "how not to do things"; something you'd learn from.