And Yiannis, please try to be a little softer the next time (just a suggestion).
I don't think he was entirely unjustified in his reply, although it was not Revvy's fault alone - it is a general attitude problem which is slowly evolving. Revvy was just unlucky to be the person getting it today.
Those repeated implied threats (whether people mean them that way or not) are as annoying as the "you owe me some" attitude that some other people express. None of the developers here are getting paid or have any benefits for providing this software, so it is quite silly to try to blackmail them.
I remember well this other person posting something like "code completion in MinGW Developer Studio is so much better than in Code::Blocks, you should think about changing it, or I'll use VS Express 2005".
That's not only plain outraegous (who do those people think they are?), but these comments are also unproductive and stupid. First, if MinGW Studio is really that good, then why switch to VS Express? Second, if they were really thinking about using another IDE which is so much better, then why do they bother.
If people come and tell you "Hey sucker! You do as I want or I'll use a competitor's product", then you are perfectly right to tell them off, especially if you get no retaliation for your work. Personally, I have even been showing customers who
would havepaid me the finger when they started like this, and I have never run into a problem with that.
Much depends on how you say something. Revvy, if you had just said "Oh, I noticed that cmd.exe is hardcoded, for Win98 this should be...", then it would probably have been fixed within very short time. If you browse the forums, you will find that most issues that can be fixed easily are addressed within very short time (often only a few hours). And let's not forget that we're talking about an in-development version.
On the other hand, bailing out "Bah, nothing works, I quit! I'll go Microsoft" only provoke a negative reaction from people, and while they're typing their flames, they don't write code