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The Biggest Cults In Tech

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nobody-can-match-the-apple-fanbois dept.

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.

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  1. Cults in tech? by fatboyslack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Strange to have 'cults in tech' and no mention of gamers, console vs pc, mmorpgers in WoW etc.

    If anything was a cult it would be WoW and Evercrack.

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  2. Pretty absurd Apple is absent by calmofthestorm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    especially if we're mentioning Ubuntu. Seems like windows is missing too.

    A fanboi is a fanboi, even if their product actually is better.

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  3. slashdotters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    very big mistake - the author forgot to mention slashdotters

  4. Re:Cult #1 by Chris+Acheson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Windows isn't a cult.

    It's a religion.

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  5. Clueless by burris · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Programming language Ruby and its younger, sleeker sibling, Ruby on Rails

    I stopped reading after this.

  6. Why Windows isn't a cult by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Quantity has a quality all its own." -- Joseph Stalin

    Size matters. Within the topic of mysticism, when you get to the mainstream stuff like Christianity/Judaism/Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, they're not cults, regardless of any of the beliefs within them. Likewise, neither is Windows, for the same exact reason. You have to be a persecuted minority to be a cult. Being crazy isn't enough; if you have enough votes, insanity is irrelevant.

    Apple is approaching loss of its culty flavor as well. Sure, they're still minority, but they're a big rich one, and certainly not persecuted (except maybe the gamers).

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  7. Missed the biggest of all by Brett+Buck · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Object-oriented programming. And yes, I expected to get done for heresy.

            Brett

  8. Re:Cult #1 by mark-t · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The primary difference between a cult and a religion is that in a religion, all of the information about it is openly and freely exchanged to the maximum extent that anyone who believes in the religion is capable. A cult, however, keeps some aspects of their beliefs and practices to themselves, revealing certain details only to trusted associates that are also within the cult.

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