Well why even list Ballmer in the first place? You pretty much walked right into that one.

So fellow Linux users and I could flame at anybody who selected it. Oops, sorry, that means Linux users in this case who decided to abuse the poll and select Ba££mer only because Volkerding wasn't on the poll -- and even then the reason Volkerding isn't there is an accident that couldn't be fixed because the Mods don't allow poll editing.

So let me get this straight, your intention for this thread was a flame war? Hrmm, I wonder how the mods would feel about this. First the malicious code, now this? Whats next? I'm shocked, appalled, befuddled...

Who knew you had such a darkside...

Looks like you fell into your own trap then.

'Walked into his own trap'.... man the people using linux are rebels at the core. I still somehow cannot get the picture I saw a while ago that had Linus standing at a winduhs 7 (choke) counter and giving it a thumbs up. For some reason I expect these people to do something unexpected.
@kenny - have heart man. I did NOT vote for Ballmer. I like Linus - very cool and down-to-earth. Managing a bunch of hackers of this caliber is no joke. RMS is someone who is someone Ballmer would not like to meet in a dark deserted street at night. Well as far as jeremy is concerned he will _always_ get my vote.

So not one Linux user uses Windows? Do you speak for all Linux users? I really don't identify myself as any kind of 'rebel' for using Linux. Actually in most cases I don't mind using either Windows or Linux depending on what I am trying to accomplish or what is available to me at that time.

Besides 'rebel Linux users' would imply that they are indeed rather zealous, and to me that just serves no real helpful purpose. It lumps the rest of the Linux community as nothing more but zealous fanboys, so much so that in fact their zealotry tends to provoke actions and rhetoric that really reflects poorly on the Linux community. *cough*

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_COt6T7Tmrok/Su...2/dsc_1576.jpg
from here

http://picasaweb.google.com/cschlaeg...LinuxSymposium

I'm seriously considering creating a second account so I can vote for Ballmer again.

ROTFL.
This is going to be my wallpaper for December.

Torvlads is hilarious. LOL @ Windows 7 thing.

Dont really know how to say this but we are rebels. We are the people who would not follow the crowd. We would rather go through the nightmare of our first installation, the execution of our first disaterous commands and loosing data we read a ton of man pages and info pages, enter some commands (look at some scripts in programming section) that a duhs sysadmin would shiver looking at. And to top it all we still love linux . It looks like fanboy craze.
There are some computer enginers I know who have spent a good 3.5 years in college learning what god alone knows who cannot write a batch file for xpee. Some of these guys know exsistance of something called unix (one of them thought that unix was something that would make windows xpee faster and more secure!). One of these guys saw my pc boot and asked me why was I using dos (!), he works as a programmer for an antivirus company I gently led him out of my room and asked him did he want coffee before he left. This guy knew unix but then did not know linux.
I look at the linux community and I find that the community is upright and very independent. I am proud to be a member of this community which has given me so much and has never asked for anything back.
So if people say I am a fanboy it is ok. I do _not_ understand c or even shell scripting but then I am sure if I ask around I will get an answer. So yes I am a fanboy but then there are some mature indivudals in the community and I respect them but still at heart I think I will always be a linux fanboy and a rebel.

Linux is not rebellious, it's an alternative. I do agree though, it's little-known compared to Mac or Windows.

Speak for yourself. I'm not a rebel. Besides, nobody is going to tell me who I am

I like following the crowd. Recently I've been following the 'IT Crowd' and it suits me well, LOL

Don't know quite how to tell you this, but I use Linux because 1) it works and 2) it saves my business some serious cash.

Well, I use Linux because it's great and I hate Window$ and M$.