Yes, there is. Someone made the comparison to power tools before Gruber used it, it also includes a mentioning of his favourite fruit-flavoured toy line as well

Yes, there is. Someone made the comparison to power tools before Gruber used it, it also includes a mentioning of his favourite fruit-flavoured toy line as well as Microsoft's products. I am, of course, talking about Neal Stephenson's essay on Unix - The Hole Hawg [1]. Replace 'Unix' with 'Linux' and the comparison still holds: Unix is the Hole Hawg of operating systems, and Unix hackers, like Doug Barnes and the guy in the Dilbert cartoon and many of the other people who populate Silicon Valley, are like contractor's sons who grew up using only Hole Hawgs. They might use Apple/Microsoft OSes to write letters, play video games, or balance their checkbooks, but they cannot really bring themselves to take these operating systems seriously. Linux is a Hole Hawg, it might be rough on the edges but it can do the work where its more polished brethern-in-Posix give up. [1] http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html