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Good question

>Anyone who is often critical of Microsoft
I am sometimes critical of MS, but I'm not an ABMer because I use, and enjoy Windows every day.

>Anyone who speaks of Microsoft in a rude way
If you speak rudely of MS then yes, you are probably an ABMer. You can disagree with some practices of a company but still agree that its products have use and do it all without being rude. If I said Linsux sucked and all Linux geeks were losers who lived in their basement, chances are good that I would be an ABLer and probably wouldn't mind the label.

>Anyone who picks a non-MS product over a MS product (and doesn't immediately mention MS products that he still uses)
I picked a non-MS product over an MS product, many in fact. I can even say that IE is no longer a good product so I chose a better one. However, if you say that M$ is evil and microsucks is the devil and that is why you chose Linux, well, you probably are an ABMer.

>Anyone who is favorable toward Linux/OSS
I quite like Linux and I use Subversion (love it, FAR better than SourceSafe... oops, did I pick a non-MS product over an MS one?). However, I DON'T say that everyone who doesn't use Linux is an idiot and a sheep and clueless, etc. because I understand that it isn't ANYTHING but Microsoft, it is OTHER THINGS plus Microsoft. I guess I'm an OTPM! The really funny thing is that while the ABMers are eschewing the beauty of "choice", they are actually doing the opposite because they criticize me for my "choice" to use Microsoft products in addition to OSS products.

>Anyone who trolls on ZDNet
Trolls are just that... trolls. Unfortunately for the Linux fans here (myself included), most of the trolls seem to be of itanalyst and mike cox quality. People like that are definitely ABMers, wouldn't you agree?

>Anyone who posts on ZDNet pretending to have different views than their own
I don't quite understand this one. Care to explain?

>Anyone who disagrees with No_Ax_to_Grind
All of No_Ax's posts seem quite well thought out and quite moderate actually... except perhaps when he is replying to trolls and even then, I don't think he's said Linsux even once. His point on Microsoft related articles usually seems to revolve around the premise that not everything MS does is evil or wrong. If you disagree with that premise, then you believe that everything MS does is evil and wrong, therefore yes, you are an ABMer.

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