Would this action not have put them in breach of contract? Could you not seek a termination of said contract, with subsequent loss of their 'rights' to your paper, as well as costs and compensation to yourself for both the breach and the implied dafamation? Also wouldn't there also be a spurious takedown which might help you in the other a rguments?

then you should care about the code, as well. Choice of language can have a lot of consequences for accuracy and floating rounding errors need to be accounted for, and these may differ per language and implementation version of each language.

...does it make data storage more palatable, or should the claim be taken with a pinch of salt... :)

I cannot imagine that the parent company cannot contractually discipline a franchise should they bring the brand into disrepute.

Unless the brand owner takes action to disassociate itself from this action and withdraw support from this franchise, I will not set foot in any branch or franchise of this company world-wide because I need to know that I can exercise my rights to share my fair opinions without threat of legal action should I get bad service.

In which case you are saying that taxation is stealing. You may have a point, there, mind you.

That is not what you said. You mad an assumption about the OP and byt your tone and approach determined that a REAL DEVELOPER would use nothing but a text editor. I was refuting that as patently barking.

I also have met alleged 'pros' who couldn't tell a tag from a headbut on the keyboard and have deep sixed more than a few when I've taken over the teams. I am rabit about W3C standards.

Your second paragraph of your reply was much more sensible and had you said it in the first place, I doubt you would have had the responses that you have felt it necessary to defend yourself from.

Have you ever been to West Virginia?

Heh. I couldn't help but be reminded of one of Dave Barry's old columns, where he quotes John Denver's famous song: "Almost heaven? West Virginia?"

There are compiled languages that are arguably better than C, such as Eiffel, Modula-3, and D. These may be promoted by companies, but surely not controlled. C is popular because it's simple and powerful, is good enough, and has inertia. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best.