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Amiga Persecution Complex
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n. The disorder suffered by a particularly egregious variety of bigot ,
those who believe that the marginality of their preferred machine is the
result of some kind of industry-wide conspiracy (for without a conspiracy of
some kind, the eminent superiority of their beloved shining jewel of a
platform would obviously win over all, market pressures be damned!) Those
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afflicted are prone to engaging in flame wars and calling for boycotts and
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mailbombings. Amiga Persecution Complex is by no means limited to Amiga
users; NeXT, NeWS , OS/2 , Macintosh, LISP , and GNU users are also common
victims. Linux users used to display symptoms very frequently before Linux
started winning; some still do. See also newbie , troll , holy wars , weenie
, Get a life!.