Yeah I noticed the recent upsurge in necroposting lately. X.x On top of that it happens in 2010-11 threads, not the minus world, so it's not due to the board merge.
That said, on the topic of Axe vs ASM vs BASIC vs Grammer vs OPIA vs everything else, there was another Axe vs everything incident elsewhere and while it remained somewhat clean of bashing, there were a lot of generalizations and false accusations being done towards the entire Axe programmer group and I think the person even got warned for them. It was in French, though, so not many people here would understand, not to mention I'M not sure if the topic exists anymore.
Another thing I just remembered too that I should probably have cited as example in the first post is this X.x
http://tichessteamhq.yuku.com/topic/1577/ticalc-org-POTY-voting-recommendations