The odd little "vote of no confidence".
Well it looks like some members of the DotNet Community have decided to take a nutty very strange and unusual position of biting the hand that feeds, by posting a petition of signatories to a VOTE of NO Confidence in the Entity Framework (soon to be released).
Three questions arise from this:
Do I disagree with their main assertions?
Simply the answer is NO, I do NOT disagree with any of the points made in the assertions on the petition. In fact I believe their contribution, in dispensing opinion based on real world business experience to the development community is enormously valuable and to be considered seriously by developers where it’s appropriate. However I am not so sure about their skills in diplomacy.
Why do I think this is nuts strange?
Microsoft know very well what the position of this collection of people is and the thing that stuck out to me as being “off”, was the title of the exercise and even perhaps the method. Firstly, using a petition denotes a protest more than it does a community warning or announcement and secondly, the title of the petition “Vote of No Confidence”, I think is less than diplomatic and sounds a little desperate.
What will the Founders think?
I will be interested to note how this plays out with the contribution of the Data Programmability Advisory Council (the fathers of DDD) who oddly enough are not signatories of the petition………
