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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. Mac users by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Plenty of newbs are jumping aboard the Mac bandwagon now that it's trendy to do so. Mac OS X is now a certified UNIX operating system, mostly compatible with lots of Linux or FreeBSD stuff, and it runs on what is mostly off-the-shelf PC hardware including Intel CPUs.

    However, some of us loved our Macs in the 1990s, when none of those things were true.

    --
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    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  2. Technology "cults" - they must end, one c by Veritech_Ace · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you have an emotional attachment to any technology to the point that you vehemently attack its alternatives and passionately extol its superiority, be it a piece of metal and plastic or a collection of lines of source code, you seriously need to re-evaluate your life. Optimally, you need to end it.

  3. Re:Fun Read? by mangu · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, the cult of grammar Nazi's.

    The plural of Nazi is Nazis. "Nazi's" is a possessive.

    The Antichrist: The Apostrophe Between "t" and "s" in the Word "it's" When "it's" is used as a posessive

    Speaking of possessives, it's possessive, not posessive.

  4. Re:Cult #1 by Sobrique · · Score: 1, Troll

    There are no secret books of the Bible, or secret doctrines relating to the Catholic faith

    But surely, that's what they _want_ you to think.