The Biggest Cults In Tech 397
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.
Cults in tech? (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.
Pretty absurd Apple is absent (Score:5, 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.
slashdotters (Score:5, Insightful)
very big mistake - the author forgot to mention slashdotters
Re:Cult #1 (Score:5, Insightful)
Windows isn't a cult.
It's a religion.
Clueless (Score:5, Insightful)
I stopped reading after this.
Tech Cults? (Score:3, Insightful)
Why Windows isn't a cult (Score:5, 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).
Re:Perl? (Score:3, Insightful)
ah yes, perl. one of those 'write-only' languages. much like c++ in that regard.
both perl and C++ are langs I dread to read others' code in.
Re:Oracle DBAs (Score:3, Insightful)
You can always tell because they believe all of the business logic should be migrated from your current app framework to stored procedures, there to bitrot in PL/SQL hell forever.
Re:Cult #1 (Score:3, Insightful)
Missed the biggest of all (Score:5, Insightful)
Object-oriented programming. And yes, I expected to get done for heresy.
Brett
Re:Fun Read? (Score:1, Insightful)
It's because story links to the second page
Yours, Captain Obvious
Re:Cult #1 (Score:4, Insightful)
Name: Commodore Amiga OS
Established: 1985
Gathering of the tribe: various E.U. discoteks
Major Deity: Jay Butterfield
Sacred Relic: a red-and-white "boing" ball.
Believed Antichrist: Commodore management
True Antichrist: Wintel empire
Major religious rituals: Multitasking 100 programs at once, Instant off shutdown (flip the power switch), rapid bootup (10 seconds), balancing Chip RAM versus Fast RAM, and Guru Meditation errors
Re:Cult #1 (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:BeOS left off? (Score:3, Insightful)
Oh, BeOS. Wow. I don't get clingy and fanboy-ish over many tech things, but that's one of them. If it had modern drivers and could run at least most of my software, I'd use BeOS over anything else--Linux, Windows, OSX, *BSD, you name it.
Hell, I've even begun to need some future-proof, extensive, filesystem-level metadata for my ever-growing collections of various things; if only BeOS were still alive & kicking with a bright future, I could just use BFS. Wish the other operating systems would catch up with where BeOS was years ago. For that matter, I wish they'd act as responsive on a 2GHz dual-core system as BeOS did on a Pentium 166Mhz...
Re:Best Cult (Score:3, Insightful)