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The Biggest Cults In Tech
bobby f. writes "Infoworld has published its list of the biggest cults in tech — including Palmists, Newtonians, Commodorians, the Brotherhood of the Ruby, IBM power systems fanboys, Ubuntu-ists, and Lispers. A pretty fun read (unless you really are a cult member)." Although I think it's pretty clear that the Apple camp isn't an opinionated cult, they're just always right. Fire away.
It's been a very long time since I met a Newton or Palm cult member! Time to update the list.
Allow me to change the definition of "cult" slightly to "whatever belief your smart friends want you to give up". Then cult #1 is:
Name: Windows
Established: 1995
Gathering of the Tribe: InfoWorld and other magazines that pretend that everything except Windows is a "cult"
Major Deity: Bill Gates
Sacred Relic: 30-letter authorization keys
The Antichrist: Linus Torvalds
I belong to the Cult of Single Page Views, not 8-page clickfests.
Not so much fun, actually.
Why did they list the same group twice?
Strangely enough the article read much the same.
I've always considered myself a Quaker.
..are more like Scientologists than an cult....
We friars of Forth our outraged at your constant disre...Hey, I'm talking here. Hey, pay attention, I'm talking here! Hrmph, Forth gets no respect. No respect at all.
Demented But Determined.
Name: Perl
Established: 1987
Gathering of the tribe: USENET
Major Deity: Larry Wall
Sacred Relic: All those O'rielly books
The Anti-Christ: Ruby
As yes, The Cult of Loose.
Their won cult that never should of ben allowed.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
PC games and MMORPGS kick @$$ its not a cult its a way of life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
Its not my fault, someone put a wall in my way.
PC games and MMORPGS kick @$$
I agree - Nethack FTW!
Oh, wait - you weren't referring to the player next to two piles of money, after all.
Never mind, then.
I've always considered myself a Quaker.
No DOOMsday cult?
There are still people crowing about how Amiga is poised for a comeback. Everyone's going to realize how wrong they were for abandoning the platform. We'll all repent and be saved by the second coming of Amiga. They still go on and on about REXX and Video Toaster, as if those are relevant technologies.
I for one am actively working to prevent this disaster by promoting... Atari TOS! TOS can save us all! Don't listen to the Amiga infidels! You only need 512 colors! MIDI, MIDI, MIDI! Those Amiga Cultists are all nutters! 16/32-bit Atari is the true path!
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Other's code? I have enough trouble reading my own code a couple of months after I wrote it.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Those guys seem to think everything should be coded in C, even if it takes 10 times longer than coding it in another language, and results in a program filled with memory leaks.
C is great, but lets be honest - at least 80% of C programmers shouldn't be programming, let alone programming in a low level language!
I've seen more horribly malformed C than VB!
Yes we could all add to this list. Lispers are correctly known as "Knights of the Lambda Calculus" Where are the Pythonistas and their sub groupings such as the followers of the flying pony. The Webites who hold that the browser is an operating system. The Vimpire Clans and the followers of the one true Emacs, or the XEmacs heresy. All these cults where missing from the list. And let us not forget the many many tribes of Trolls that inhabit the internet.
read my mind at http://the-willows.blogspot.com/
And let's not forget The Cult of Those Who Need to Correct Failure, but Fail Hard Themselves.
That's GNU/Linux, you freedom-hating blasphemer!
Gather the HURD!! *draws katana*
signed,
RMS
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
No DOOMsday cult?
Of course not. That would just be Unreal.
Goo goo g'joob.
I'm with the Church of Latter Day Megaman.
Standing in awe at the historical wonder that is the Amiga, OS and hardware, is a natural human reaction, and therefore not the sign of belonging to any cult. The emotions that I've felt considering the Amiga are not unlike those I've experienced standing at the foot of the temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, or what I'd imagine would be the sensation of laying one's mortal eyes on the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Actually, come to think of it, the Amiga was more Golden Pavilion than Baalbek: harmonious; perfect even in its flaws. So perfect, it should not exist on this flawed earth. A crazed monk burned the Temple of the Golden Pavilion -- that's cultism. There are folks who believe the AmigaOS will rise again to rule us all -- that's cultism. But admiring the sheer perfection of the Amiga as a computer system of its generation, and marveling at its unparalleled run as the most elegant and best-performing PC on the market? That's just appreciating historical reality.