Dear Robert Vamosi:

It is indeed very unfortunate that things have come to this. It took me some time to read your letter and digest the points you have mentioned.

However, I guess I should move on with life and should not get too emotional about the past. But I thought on parting terms, I should tell you about a few things you have mentioned.

Yes, it wasn't very kind of you to do this when I was down with another virus - if it pleases you, yet another virus. But have you ever wondered what makes me so vulnerable. It is not my own resistive powers, but often the environment that you placed me in. You do not want to live hygenically and safely and do not want me to take my doze of security updates regularily. And then when some virus gets through, you blame me for not being able to contain it. Did you know that there are a million people out there trying to just take advantage of your lethargy?  How do you expect poor me to tackle all of them single-handedly without your support?

On cheating
You contradict yourself here from what you say a little later. You accuse me of not being fit. And yet you go on about how I help everyone around including Outlook, Word and Explorer. I had this helping and sharing nature of mine ever since I knew you. So why is it that you suddenly have a problem with it now. In spite of my many relationships with peers, I have always been yours and have been available at your beck and call. Don't you realize that my involvement with peers is a pure relationship only intended at assisting them in providing better service to you?

On fitness
I introduced you to dynamism and gave you the power of the DOM. Before that you were the one who was bloating with loads of HTML and were satisfied doing child's play in JavaScript. I showed you how the Internet can be better used. I changed the Internet for you. A lot.

Pluck was not really a part of me. But do you realize that I could render and work with XML for you even before RSS was born?  And how many Christmas holidays did you freely enjoy when I took care of your web customers for you.  You didn't have to worry because you finished coding faster with me. You would probably have had to wait until next Christmas if you did things with Netscape then.

Windows XP SP2 is my home. If it offered me something brand and shiny - why are you feeling jealous?  I am not denying anything, never did. It is only you that thinks in the most unmatured way that something good offered to me - in fact to both of us - is wrong for me to accept. I see you are losing logic and framing me unnecessarily.

The final note
You accept yourself that you always came back. I almost feel like laughing at that. I know that you will come back this time around too. But maybe I would have changed so much that I wouldn't recognize you. 

With my plans for making new friends with Longhorn and the like, I would not just be strong and secure, but I will handle content such as XAML that probably nobody else in the world would.  And when everybody around you will move to that, you will come back to me, begging for my services.

Mozilla FireFox is pretty, but we have both seen how pretty browsers of the past have fared. After a year of spending time with your newly found love, you will start complaining that it is not new anymore. You will also complain about the thousands of others who have so much access to your love, that they all create constant version conflicts. Remember the days of Netscape 4.7.2 or 4.7.3? 

If you want to take your new friend to Linux or Mac, you are welcome. Mac was my friend even before I knew you. And I don't have any interest in making friends with hostile Linux. You can't force me to join friends of your choice, I have a say in choosing whom I want to be friends with. If you think that's being snobby, so be it.

So that is it from me: Good-bye and all the best.