Martin and Tim comment on Joel Spolsky’s review of TAOUP. Always interesting to read reactions to Joel’s articles because they tend to be strong. Strongly for, against, or surprised (“Wow, I thought Joel was a smart guy!”). I’m usually slightly annoyed by him, and fear Nat and Miguel’s ideas of Joel doing a keynote at GUADEC. They seem to enjoy his writings a lot. It’s even worse now that he’s written this, because I can imagine him ranting at us about how UNIXised we are, and how we need to suckle on the MS kool-aid (not that we do that from time to time already). Oddly enough, I’ve found that a lot of people who are annoyed by Joel are also annoyed by ESR, for similar reasons. Well, maybe not the mad raving Libertarian gun stuff, but you know what I mean. Hard to feel sympathetic to either side in this article.