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Best. Analogy. Ever.

Trolling Slashdot the other day, I came across the usual thread teeming with Linux apologists decrying the evils of Microsoft and their tireless quest to stamp out the last traces of good in the software world. It was just like Penny Arcade tells us.

However, I was this time fortunate enough to bear witness to a beautifully crafted rebuttal, in which Linux apologists are likened to ditzy whores who are lovestruck with their two-timing beaus.

Every time I hear someone talking about a company pushing Linux on the desktop over windows I think of this woman I worked with who was having an affair with a very financially successful married man. Every few months she would get all excited because the divorce papers were finally coming through and she would be recognized as his wife. Then a few weeks after she would be crying because it was going to be “just a few more months”. Instead of recognizing the situations for what it was; She was just a cheap, easy lay and he was never leaving his wife, she clung onto the idea that she would eventually be his wife. Linux on the desktop is the mistress, windows is the wife, big business is the successful husband and unless the mistress puts a bullet in the wifes head the husband isn’t voluntarily divorcing his wife anytime soon.

Oh, man, burn.

This might be a bad time to bring this up, but have you heard that 2008 is the Year of the Linux Desktop?

If you need me, I’ll be trying to buy a handgun in this ridiculously socialist society I temporarily call home. Although I guess it would behoove me to set up Wine properly, first.