"Fanboys" and the IT media

Here is what I've come to learn from the mainstream IT media:

• If you prefer Linux to Windows, and encourage its use to others, you are a fanboy and/or fantaic
• If you prefer OS X to Windows, and encourage its use to others, you are a fanboy and/or fanatic
• Corollary: If someone makes a ridiculous claim about Linux or OS X (e.g. "Yeah but you can't read PDFs in Linux!") and you attempt to show this to be wrong, then you are a fanboy.
• Linux/OS X fanboys are ridiculous. No one wants to be ridiculous. Therefore, don't use anything other than Windows.
• There are far more fanboys in the minds of reporters than exist in reality, by a factor of approximately 1000:1.

Every "reporter" who uses the word "fanboy" -- except to decry the stupidity of the word -- should be forced to wear a scarlet letter "F" around their neck.

The "F" is for "FAIL".