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Whatever your feelings are about Linux (or Windows, or OS X , or ...) you really should check out the Linux Hater's Blog.

It's actually farther from all-out-flaming than you'd think and basically challenges the Linux community to do better.

I particularly enjoyed this entry: 0.99 bottles of wine on the wall:

Y'all seem to want me to rant about OpenOffice. There's not much to say, I mean, I don't really use it. I can't remember the last time someone sent me an SXW, so why the fuck would I use something different? Especially something that doesn't work as well as the original. Because it's free? Because all your other examples of fantastic open source software should make me blindly trust this one too? well I actually like to pay money for my sanity. Obviously y'all don't value it as much.

Besides, real programmers don't use office suites. And fo shizzle, real programmers on Linux definitely don't use office suites. No, they just annoy the world by telling everyone re-send their shit in PDF. I'm sure Adobe's laughing all the way to the bank.

Actually, now that I think about it, I do have one adecdote. I have a lady friend, who uses Excel for a living, to whom I offered to install OO on her new Windows machine because she needed something to do her work. A week later, she came back and took a big shit on my lap. And then slapped me across the face with it. Now I know that kind of thing might get some of you kinktards off, but that pretty much taught me my lesson.

But you know, I still somehow keep wishing that a random group of volunteer programmers can magically recreate the work done by thousands of Microsoft engineers. I mean, that would be totally awesome. So would having Jessica Alba as a sex slave. Maybe if I work for the next 15 years, I too could end up with a bugly look-alike.

Actually, I dunno, maybe it could really be done. Many times I've thought that if all of y'all actually cooperated and built one office suite, then maybe it might be better, or at least as good. Then I looked around and saw OO, Gnumeric/Abiword, and KOffice, and concluded that you guys didn't get the memo about what the "co" in cooperate means. But you know, ODF will save us all. Or something.

The guy has a certain style, no?