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.
I don't flame them, and as I said I've seen those threads go on a long time with nothing but Macheads on them. They seem to really like the flame wars, if they don't get somebody hitting the Mac in the first 10 posts or so they'll start posts with things like "the Widiots will probably say..." then they'll attack back against their imaginary flame post. It's a serious sign of mental disfunction. Most of the raw insults from the Macbashers (it is a flame war after all) usually revolve around the liberal imagery Mac puts in its commercials. I think those are pretty funny, though like all flames pointless. Just how long are we supposed to sit idly buy being called "widiots" before we remind them that the new iMac looks like a desklamp with a thyroid condition?
You're not an in your face honest guy. You're somebody with an entrenched position who can't stand to see his sacred cows tipped. If you were an in your face honest guy we'd get along. I can always get along with those people even when I disagree with them about everything. I like straight shooters because I know I can trust them. I can't even trust you to not misquote me and mock your new definition of what I said. You're not a straight shooter, you might have been once, but your hatred of MS has eaten that away.