update Kasia says what she would have done differently, though I'm not sure "nobody wakes up at 7am and decides to pull the plug on a busy site before their first cup of coffee."

update My comment at Wizbang also deserves inclusion.

Wired nails why people bash the guy, despite his contributions:

Winer also added in his audio message that he believed no matter how he had handled the shutdown, people would have complained.

"On the Internet ... it hardly matters how well you do something, certain things happen and people will jump up and down. Just accept that," Winer said.

Just because some people are serial complainers, it doesn't mean that all people should have their opinions totally disregarded.

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