Oh, come on Gary, this is an amiga discussion, did you seriously expect anything but? if it hadn't been MikeB it would've been someone else.
What really bugs me is that the sort of people who visit OSNews is exactly the kind of people the Amiga has any chance of atttracting (after all, what happy Windows user is going to go there?). After bickering like that (and MikeB is by no means the only one), what kind of an impression do you think that all those other people are going to have? I've stopped mentioning my affinity to amigas to "outsiders", exactly because of the response this triggers. The typical comment is, "oh yeah, that's the cool machine from the 80s with the users who like slagging each other off"