The sarcasm in your initial comment was equally as abrasive, which, I think, led to the abrasiveness of the reply. That said, like every argument ever about what languages are good, it really just comes to what you finally said, basically that Java is a damn fine language for implementing certain applications, and though it can be used in other contexts, there are sometimes better alternatives.

I am getting very confused trying to reconcile these two quotes. So the Firefox team creates some content - who do they charge for the work they did? Their users, hypothetically. And then the MS team says, look, here's a product made by the FF team, buy it from us. The only way this works for FF is if people value buying the original work. And if MS can market it better, what can FF do? Isn't this exactly why copyright exists? So people can actually charge for the work they do, and other people can't charge for the work someone else did? Could you provide a different example, or better explain why the above is a good situation?

Why is it insightful to stereotype Mac users (or even specifically the fanboys) as whiny, shallow, pseudo-intellectual, metrosexual, idiotic, and gay?