[JCEccles]

Every time they say the holy word "Linux" I expect them to cross themselves.

Say "Microsoft" to the Borg-Gates fanatics and you get the same reaction. They just don't see it themselves.

I have a friend who once worked for Microsoft. Trying to persuade him to believe Windows is an operating system with flaws like any other piece of software is like trying to persuade a devout Muslim that Muhammad was a man with faults like any other man.

That makes me chuckle, of course, whenever I receive his nearly bi-weekly emailed alarms and alerts (he is an independent IT consultant now) to IMMEDIATELY rush this or that MS fix or security patch into my computers or suffer the doom and annihilation of civilization and all that is holy and good.

[usgator]

Of course, we ALL do it to some degree. I, occassionally, defend MS but it is just an operating system.

Again, the few people I know who run Linux/Unix boxes act like it is a life changing experience and stupid people like me should just walk away ... dragging our knuckles on the ground as we do it.