I think what ars meant was that you can dislike something, a la Microsoft, yet still use their product. I dislike Microsoft, but there is no alternative for me.

I think what ars meant was that you can dislike something, a la Microsoft, yet still use their product. I dislike Microsoft, but there is no alternative for me. I have no interest in Linux as it just bores the crap out of me, it's not even an alternative as there's just too many hoops to jump through to get it working and then I'll still have XP on my computer so there's no reason to switch. I would switch to Apple as an alternative, but as you have to have an apple computer to run OS X I don't even consider it. I'm not going to throw out over $1000 on a macbook, and god forbid I want extra ram installed at apple they'll take another $600 for sticking two little chips in two little slots. The guy who does it must be making $550 an hour cause I can install two ram chips for little over $50 tops! (that includes buying them, I know this because I did it just last weekend for someone, $38.99 for 2x1gb) So even though I detest microsoft, I hate them less than the rest.