Enthousiasm for Microsoft technology

Rocky has an interesting post responding to something Martin wrote about.

I'm afraid I do have to agree with Martin a little.

I've run a huge usergroup for the last couple of years (2500+ developers, www.sdn.nl) with members from all corners of development world and the enthousiasm displayed by a Delphi or FoxPro developer is much larger than a .NET developer. Don't get me wrong, there are people out there who are very enthousiastic about all Microsoft technologies, I'm one of them, but if I'd have to throw a ball park number out there, then I'd say that 50% of the Delphi programmers are active in communities whereas only 5% of the Microsoft developers do more than 'just show up for work'.

I always like to say that in any profession you have workers and you have craftsmen. Workers come in for the paycheck. Craftsmen take pride in their work, love it and go the extra mile. The Microsoft arena perhaps has ratio wise a larger % of workers. Why? Anyones guess. Perhaps the whole certification processes and quality of tooling make it easier to be a worker in Microsoft land then in other products..

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.