Found this through ComputerZen. The whole Richard Grimes incident is getting out of hands. Come on, people! Managed applications are the future. The .NET framework is awesome! I gave COM/ATL/ActiveX courses in the past. I could see those VB6 developers in front of me staring at the immensity of exceptions and rules and gotchas behind the COM scene. For the user, COM is great. But for the creator, it's an infinite loop of pitfalls.

"1199 signatories including 202 Microsoft MVPs since March 8th, 2005."

202? I can't beleive it.