Interesting analogy, it's certainly true that there is some sense of "community" for both Linux and Mac users in that people will generally choose these platfor

Interesting analogy, it's certainly true that there is some sense of "community" for both Linux and Mac users in that people will generally choose these platforms because they have certain beliefs about how things should work and won't tolerate things that fall outside of this. Windows on the other hand has no community and is kind of an multi-cultural wasteland where everything goes thus will tolerate more BS. Not sure I agree with Gruber's conclusion though, if Mac had a large uptake in market share then that community would become diluted. As it stands the random Grandma that uses a Mac without understanding computers gets a sort of herd immunity because there is a larger percentage of more nerdy and vocal users who won't tolerate BS. If grandmas become the overwhelming majority of Mac users they lose some of that because the crapware vendors know that grandma is very unlikely to read the blogposts condemning their software.