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:Sounds Like Another Fanboy Rant to Me
Sounds Like Another Fanboy Rant to Me
Jan 4, 2008, 01 :00 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (5648 reads)

(Other stories by Hans Bezemer)

[ Thanks to Hans Bezemer for this link. ]

"I found this comment while I was browsing through an MS-Windows oriented site where a blogger said something nasty about Microsoft. It isn't even worth to refer to the link, because it has nothing to do with this story. It's about the name-calling these Microsoft fans do. I heard 'zealots', 'bigots', 'advocates', the whole lot. Words I never knew before, because English is not my native tongue. I don't mind to be called a fanboy, because that is what I am. What may be not too clear to these Microsoft zealots is why I am a fanboy. It's not because I really dig this 'free the software, free the world' ideology. That came much later. It's because I like this 'gimme the source' idea..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
With the release of Vista, Microsoft is  ...   Fanboys? Zealots?   
hike
Jan 4, 2008, 01:46:52
 
rmd, pip, poke 23609, 21, et cetera, et  ...   ...   
daniel
Jan 4, 2008, 02:44:21
 
a little bit funny, a little bit sad, a  ...   funny, indeed...   
daniel
Jan 4, 2008, 02:56:01
 
As he wrote:So next time you call me a " ...   I, too, ama fanboy   
GreyGeek
Jan 4, 2008, 15:04:02
 
--"Why oh why didn't I take the blue ...   I am Sparticus!   
Sparticus
Jan 4, 2008, 19:47:48
 
Gotta love guys like "Hike" who whip eve ...   Hike it up   
Yonah
Feb 12, 2008, 19:49:46
 
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