XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.comp.os.windows-xp, comp.ms.windows.advocacy   
   XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   
   From: agent1@section31.org   
      
   On 8/5/2011 2:22 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:   
   > On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 18:28:24 -0400, Flint wrote:   
   >   
   >> For some things, a slightly larger tool is needed to get the job done.   
   >>    But the latte sippers believe the lie "Awwwww, that's alright honey,   
   >> its not how big it is, its how you use it..." .   
   >   
   > While we're playing around with advocacy, I'll point out that the Windows   
   > fanbois still believe that when it comes to software, "What you get for   
   > nothing is good for nothing," and refuse to look at Linux while the Linux   
   > fanbois (myself included) prefer to say, "Why by milk when a cow is free?"   
      
      
   Although I'm a windows user, I'm not necessarily a windows 'fanboi'   
   myself.   
   I'm more of a "PC Neocon" than anything, having been hit with a dose   
   of reality in the face.   
      
   Having been an Amiga user (and to a lesser degree a Mac classic user),   
   I saw and lived through the era where Microsoft practically buried   
   it's OS competitors, and decided one day to join the 'dark side' as a   
   user because the reality was that it was a windows world.   
      
   I've seen really cool OSes come and go, misfire, or stillborn, and   
   just don't get passionate about any of them any longer.  Linux still   
   holds some interest for me (primarily Ubuntu), but it's greatest   
   strength is also its greatest weakness - no one 'owns' it.  These   
   days, there are just some applications I have for that simply won't   
   work on it.   
      
   The older I get, I'm less of a fanboi, and I admit I'm more of what   
   they call a 'hater' since I loathe corporate anticompetitive campaigns   
   (particularly Apphole and Microsnot, and very rapidly, *Google*)   
      
   Unfortunately, I still tend to have a bit of a sweetooth for underdogs   
   (RIM anyone?), but now its more like watching puppy-cide by the   
   corporate patent trolls.   
      
   --   
   MFB   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)