"Michael P. Soulier" wrote: > > On 19/03/02 Casper Labuschagne did speaketh: > > > May I point at the Linux community (for the greater part at least) is > > racist, bigotted and prejudiced per se. To illustrate my point observe the > > reaction of extreme disgust and prejudice eminating from the average Linux > > user when confronted by the following terminology: > > > > Windows; Microsoft; Bill Gates; Windows 95; Microsoft Office; Exchange; > > Microsoft Internet Information Server; Windows XP; DOS; OS/2; .NET; Visual > > Basic ... > > Not quite Casper. Bigotry is a hatred of a race of people (interesting > that we're not just all "human", bigotry is built into the language it would > seem) because they are different. Hating someone or something because it's > different is moronic. We dislike Microsoft because they suck, not because > they're different. ;-)
Well, they are different, but our dislike is based on the merits of the software, not some blind belief that we are superior. Tom
