Once again you completely ignore absolutely everything in the post except the one sentence that doesn't stand up well on it's own.
And don't even try to say the Macheads wait for MS only people to insult them. As I said, and you ignored, I can't even get away with pointing out System 7s amazing flaws, I never hit the user I could care less, I only hit the product I could give a crap about the user. And in come the guns. I've seen those Machead tearing the crap out of Windows and MS defenders for upward of 30 posts before one of us even posts on the thread. They're really good at making up attacks, those are funny posts to read, these people are arguing with themselves.
The threads I see burn to the ground are the ones with you in them... and the Mac threads. I've seen threads go strong for 200 posts, then you show up and by 275 it's the same old crap. I never called you any kind of shill. I have considered it Dom, you forget I've spent the last two months as a self imposed reader only on these threads. Most I just stop reading once I see you're there, I know how the rest is gonna go. the ones without you are great though. Free-wheeling exchange of information, people actually willing to believe each other, no one being accused of working for MS. They're beautiful. Then a dark stench rises out of Mordor and it's instant flame war.
Once again you completely ignore absolutely everything in the post except the one sentence that doesn't stand up well on it's own. Hardly. The entire post doesn't stand up well.
Seriously, maybe you just can't see it for some reason, but you and the other MS-only folks literally begin the Mac and Linux and Unix and Java threads with flames. Therefore your responses are flames. I, and pretty much all the folks who aren't MS-only, don't seem to have that problem and can discuss at length the things we don't like about Macs (if I hate MS's 'integrated' approach to things, can you *imagine* some of the choice comments I have for Macs?).
And I'm an in-your-face honest kind of guy. But I don't have any problem with them.
MS-only folks lead with flames, and then take offense the slightest negative comment by anyone who likes non-MS technologies.
If I *had* to guess, I'd say the reason is they feel any non-MS tech threatens their 'MS-only' world. An MS-only person's fortunes live and die with MS. So a competing technology is literally a threat to them.
And when you see any other tech as a 'threat', you react the way MS-only folks do.