Post-PDC HTML5 v. Silverlight Debate

I've been an advocate of Silverlight since it was called WPF/E, so I am not quite an unbiased observer. I decided to sit back and watch the twitterverse explode and see what the world thought. The Silverlight guys got angry; the ASP.NET guys got glib; the open source guys ignored us all. In case you haven't seen, this was the Mary-Jo Foley article that started it: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/