If there's one thing I've learned from my time in tech and digital publishing it's that people react very badly when you criticise a piece of tech or a standard that's key in how they plan on making money. _Especially_ if the flaws that criticism is pointing out harm their project's profitability. If their company's viability would increase by fixing those flaws: outright fury.
Every time. Always. Consistent.
@wogan This is true.
@baldur as someone that works in PHP for my 9-5 but also criticize PHP quite a bit, I really don't understand that mentality (but I definitely see it all the time).
@baldur people generally don't like being told what to do. Especially when it comes to money.
@phoneboy Yeah, that is absolutely true.
@baldur "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." – Upton Sinclair
@nolan That single phrase is so often so incredibly relevant that it's almost worrying. But also a little bit comforting to know that this happens often enough for somebody to coin a phrase like that 😄
@baldur People get weird when money's involved. Universal truth