Apologies

[Alberto Monteiro]

Jim Sharkey wrote:
>
>> Calling Mac users a cult is like calling atheists a religion. One of 
>> those rhetorical devices where you turn the turn the truth upside >down.
> 
>> Microsoft is much more like a cult, in Redmond/Mordor trying to 
>> forge the One OS/Ring to bind all the users in darkness :-)
> 
> I dunno.  I think Nick's right.  Apple fanatics are like a small, 
> fringe cult; let's say the Jim Jones' group.  Whereas Microsoft is 
> more like one of the large, established monolithic religions with 
> millions of followers and lots more money to throw around on 
> converting the masses.  :-p
> 
And Linuxiites are just like those who highjack planes to
target tall buildings? [*]

Alberto Monteiro

[*] I know Al-Qaeda was sunni and not shi'a (in Portuguese we
write xiita).