Microsoft in holy war vs Linux

in the late evening on Sunday, the 24th of December 2006 by Chad

Den Beste compares the next few years of the OS wars to the protestant reformation. Which I think is a much better analogy than he does.

Apple is the Eastern Orthodox Church, Microsoft is Catholicism, and Linux is Protestantism.

People’s choices in operating systems are a religion, just as politics is a religion. MOST of the people just use the OS they were brought up with as a child (or in class), which is almost always Microsoft Windows. These people are just following the family tradition. A few renegades go out and look for a new religion, and end up with Linux. Those that really drink the kool-aid end up with a Mac…