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Operating system advocacy is the practice of attempting to increase the awareness and improve the perception of a computer operating system. The motivation behind this may be to increase the number of users of a system, to assert the superiority of one choice over another or out of brand loyalty, pride in an operating system's abilities, or, with open source operating systems, political or philosophical reasons , or to persuade software vendors to port specific applications or device drivers to the platform. Operating system advocacy can vary widely in tone and form, from seriously studied and researched comparisons to heated debates on mailing lists and other forums. Advocates are often normal users who devote their spare time to advocacy of their operating system of choice. Many have a deep and abiding interest in the use, design and construction of operating systems and an emotional investment in their favourite operating system. Operating system advocacy can be compared to advocacy in other fields, particularly browser, editor wars, programming languages and video game consoles, as well as the "Ford vs. Chevy" and similar debates in car culture. ==Usenet and other advocacy forums== Due to the often emotional nature of advocacy debate and its sometimes narrow appeal to the wider user population, forums for discussion of advocacy are often separate from those for general discussion. Under the Usenet ''comp.os. *'' and ''comp.sys. *'' hierarchy, there are often '' *.advocacy'' groups devoted exclusively to advocating their respective operating systems. Some of these groups, such as ''comp.sys.amiga.advocacy'', can remain active even after their subject OS ceases to be a market force. The ''Guide to the Windows newsgroups'' exhorts Usenet posters not to "get involved in arguments about Windows vs. OS/2 vs. Macintosh vs. NeXTSTEP ''except'' in the comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy group." Operating system advocacy discussions, on Usenet and elsewhere, have spawned a variety of jargon describing commonly seen behaviour, including "MicroDroid"〔(MicroDroid )〕 and "Amiga Persecution Complex".〔(Amiga Persecution Complex )〕 The emotional form and negative characteristics often associated with operating system advocacy have led some to create guidelines explaining what they consider to be positive advocacy, such as the ''Linux Advocacy Guidelines''〔(Linux Gazette, issue 14 (1997) )〕 and the ''Guidelines for Effective OS/2 Advocacy''.〔(Guidelines for Effective OS/2 Advocacy )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operating system advocacy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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