Re: Operating systems are not religions (you fools)

[Kadaitcha Man]

e71p@yahoo.com wrote:
> I had an interview today where I was told that, because I had
> coded so much for Unix/Linux and only a couple years for Windows
> that I had to "change [my] religion" to Windows. I said, in
> as polite a tone as possible, "well it's not really a religion,
> it's just an OS; and I'm pretty much agnostic about OSes".
> But that wasn't enough, the dingbat manager was apparently quite
> serious and didn't believe that I could convert away from my
> Unix-and-Linux religion -- he didn't believe I was agnostic --
> to Windoze. He even mentioned that "at least" I didn't have any
> Java on my resume -- that would have been pure heresy it seems.
> But I even resorted to praising Windows despite the fact that I
> commonly watch Explorer crash under XP Pro after certain operations.
> Granted
> the kernel itself stays running...just don't install Visual C++!
> I must say I find it pathetic and stupid that people get wrapped up
> in their little operating systems. It's not just the interviewer: the
> bickering
> that goes on in Usenet is just the same, with Linux advocates trying
> to insult 'less pious' Linux users and Windows zealots making insipid
> childish attacks.

You mean like writing an attack in a usenet post on an interviwer who simply
should have known better?

<aside>
And there you have it folks, yet another linuxfucktard, sitting in the
sewer, complaining loudly about the stench of it, totally unaware that he's
adding to it.