People are asking who the hell is Peter Wright* and why in Salon.com Technology | All hail .Net! he spouts such claptrap:

Microsoft's new software development tools are more than just nifty -- they are a great boon to humanity.

* answer at the end of the article:

About the writer - Peter Wright is a software consultant and the author of numerous books on Visual Basic programming. He is currently working on two .Net titles for Apress slated for release later this year.

Talk about conflict of interest!?