Forget about trying in vain to get your Linux distribution to behave, or plunking down tens of thousands of dollars for a Macintosh, when you can use what works! You can rant and rave about the merits of open source, but you decline to comment on the quality of the software in the first place. You'd use Linux even if it ran only one program and crashed every 15 seconds, simply because it's "open source." Open source is a failed idea, because it isn't centralized and there is no authority over it. Any dope can submit a patch, and very few knowledgeable people contribute compared to all the idiots who probably create more bugs than they fix -- which would explain why open source software has more bugs than any other type of software. Who are you going to trust your mission critical systems to, some pasty faced kid sitting in his room with no pants on wearing a "think geek" t-shirt, or a multibillion dollar company that is dedicated to providing customers the support they need? And the idea that "information wants to be free" is ridiculous. People have a right to protect their intellectual property. Linux only exists to thwart the efforts of hard working companies like Microsoft and Adobe, turning the computer software industry into a desolate wasteland of "free software."
Don't get me started on Apple. They are just like Microsoft, except they make slow computers and overcharge for them, and they use a fruit as their logo. I fail to see why you have no problems with Apple, which in the past has resorted to very dirty tactics against other companies (such as suing Microsoft over using overlapping windows in their GUI -- puh-lease) Apple acts like they invinted the idea of the GUI when they simply stole the idea themselves from XEROX Parc. Those liars.
I frankly don't care if open source is "morally superior" to companies like Microsoft, (I don't believe it to be) and even if it were, I would use what works, not what makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside (which Open source doesn't; it gives me a sinister feeling instead) You Linux geeks can take your moral righteousness and shove it.
Another thing, everyone is up in arms about Palladium, the one thing that could save the computing industry and bring order to the galaxy. Only somebody who wanted to download warez or look at kiddie porn would have a problem with Palladium, and you liars know that. Palladium will be more private and secure than Linux will EVER be, simply because of the way it's designed. You can't very easily crack hardware, after all. The TCPA website's FAQ even stated that they support open source, what more do you want? Linux users are never satisfied.
Go ahead, use Linux, but get off your high horse and quit acting like every move the software industry makes is an affront to "free software."
