I just read Andy Leonard's Five Bugs blog post concerning the Entity Famework Vote of No Confidence. You should read it, too.

That's the right approach Andy. As I said in my earlier blog post, this is not the Continental Congress facing off against King George. There are already plenty of alternatives to any technology that Microsoft makes available today. And yet, Microsoft's strategy of continual improvement works and they almost always gain market share.
 
Most good developers have the patience and foresight to use this strategy to their advantage. The weaknesses in a Microsoft technology early in the game create all sorts of opportunities for developers and architects to show off their prowess in closing those gaps. We build tools and techniques. We write about our experiences. We speak about issues in public, constructively. We build trust and support in our spheres of influence.
 
These actions are like a rising tide. Broad support for the right ways of serving our clients has the effect of lifting everyone's boat, including Microsoft's. Sharp attacks like the ones we've seen in recent days are more akin to using torpedoes instead. It just doesn't work. Look at Scott Bellware's tweets over the last day or two. There's a sample of them below. There's no professionalism in that vitriol. I agree with Andy. There's something else going on here. This can't be about making Microsoft better.
 
Here are some of Scott Bellware's tweets from yesterday and today with a few <snip>s to protect the innocent:

• @<snip> petty sabotage in this community is done because it's implicitly permissible by the towering gods of tech ed
• Lean Microsoft... for real... i would work myself to the bone for a software company that behaves like Toyota rather than Boris and Natasha
• imagine a microsoft that believed getting it right the first time was an imperative
• so much potential, so little will to transform it into betterment
• people, it's ok to say in public those things you say in email and in person. the more courages voices, the better things get for all
• we somehow got convinced that it's not ok to dissent to microsoft. when it's impolitic to hold a corporation to account, it has impunity.
• the tech ed crowd and rd crowd has the power to change .net mainstream culture. it appears too busy protecting its own interests to care
• dreaming of a .net community where integrity, courage, and diversity were unassailable values that everyone defends at all cost
• if only a high-profile blogger or podcaster in mainstream .net community had the integrity to talk about this problem. yeah. dreaming.
• THE hallmark of microsoft community is the drive to limit free speach
• mainstream .net's answer to the ef letter is to continue to spam the list. this is the clearest indicator of how shallow this segment is
• after years of dumbing down customer community, and taking input from that community, microsoft is itself a victim of its own craven ways
• the movie idiocracy is an allegory for the results of microsoft holding its customer community back from the advances it can't afford
• the long tail of fear, uncertainty, and doubt entrenched into ms culture by microsoft has limited its own community's intellectual potential
• alt.net: i think you could benefit from some OO design fundamentals / mainstream: nyah, nyah, nyah, i know you are but what am i
• even arguments that call people out by name are valuable when accurate and substantial, but name calling is what we get from ms community
• the mainstream .net community is always ready willing, willing, and able to be petty in its opposition to alt.net
• @<snip> other dev communities think the .net community is so primitive that they barely think it's worth paying attention to
• <snip> signed the ef letter. i think it's a hoax. can someone at ms confirm? if it's a fake, i'll delete it
• is there a magazine in the microsoft space that isn't on microsoft's payrol?
• the continued quoting of roger jennings' stilted characterization of the ef letter in microsoft media shows how corrupt microsoft media is

Read anything in there that makes you feel like a professional? Not me.