I 100% agree to Spirit, Checkbutton and Iuselitec. I think it is good that we have this tools forum. Discussing competitor products widens the horizon and even gives Conitec hints in which way to improve their tools. But this also can be bad when this freedom is misused by people who only post for advertising competitors and for triggering quarrels.

No company would tolerate the open posting of competitor advertisements on their own forum. It would be very naive to assume that Frank would get away with this. He can be glad that he was not banned. He would be on most other forums when he really posted a Torque advertisement.

In my opinion the biggest disadvantage of advertising competitors is the lengthy discussions and arguments that are always triggered. They are just huge a waste of time for all participants.