To avoid OS Wars ...An American solution :

[CMonster]

With all the Windows and Linux basing going on in various forums on numerous Web sites I have a possible solution for us "Americans:"

1. make the "W" word and the "L" word a hate crime and unmentionable by the mass media except for saying "W-word" and "L-word" respectively... and

2. refer to W-word users as Gatesian Americans and refer to L-word users as Torvaldsian Americans.

[CMonster]

3. those individuals who continue to use both OSs will also henceforth be refered to as "bi-OS-uals"

Yep, I looked too soon

I have no idea about this solution, though. (Didn`t understand it, and my Dictionary isn`t around too)

[vass0922]

Ahhhh
Kinda like making 'shell shock' into 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder'
Take out the offensive words and make it into a realllly long statement that essentially makes no sense at all and has no meaning! That way people can't argue about it seeing as it has no meaning

[CMonster]

Kenkun: so-des-ka?

my post is a play on words and a satire of the "Windows vs Linux" (Gates vs Torvalds) debate, partly based in American colloquialism and so-called "politically correct" speach, in which (for example) we can no longer refer to citizens as "jap" or Japanese, but as "Japanese Americans" or "Americans of Japanese descent," otherwise may face stiff legal penalties and at very lest face being ostracized by the politically correct.

My real point is twofold:

1. that political correctness has reached such a level that we find it increasingly difficult to express an opinion that differs from the "status quo" and we dare not even express a distain for another race, culture, or religion

2. that it is silly to elevate the Windows vs Linux debate to such a level

BTW - watashiwa amerikajindes, kankugonoo dekimo, nihongo skosh deki mas.... Linux ichiban des!