Every once in a while you’ll have a Geek confide in you that he or she doesn’t hate Microsoft all that much. They’ll say they don’t mind Sharepoint, or something called “dot net”. When that happens, know this, that Geek is doomed. You can be sure the other Geeks in the gaggle have sniffed this out, they can sense when one of their own has a secret affection to Microsoft. It’s like when whales know another whale is sick. Except instead of swimming around and singing to the sick whale, they secretly make fun of it and think it wants to become middle management. This Geek has no support amongst the other Geeks and it’s best to avoid them.