Meerkatland - where 'tenuous' is a way of life...
If the Sony guy dislikes the Microsoft guy, the Sony guy might not want to be buying products from the Microsoft guy. ie: Windows. And Linux is a pretty good substitute for Windows.
If I can work in a Beowulf reference there somewhere then I'll have fully qualified it as an 'ObSlashdot' post :)
On and on and on and on,
and on and on and on goes John.