Re: Is Linux, or The Linux Community, A Cult ?

On Feb 19, 12:08 pm, linux.curi...@yahoo.com wrote:
> There are more than a few similarities between Linux and a typical
> religious cult.
>
> For example:
>
> Both worship their leader.
> Both have a distended, warped view of their subject matter.
> Both are obsessed with something that most people know nothing about.
> Both believe that they are right and everyone else is wrong.
> Both insist on proselytizing or converting every single person into
> the fold.
> Both have a warped view of the economy. IOW give everything away for
> free.
> Both have socialistic tendencies.
> Both seem to attract oddballs, social misfits and the mentally ill.
> Both encourage obsessive behavior and total devotion to the cause.
> Both disparage and try to discredit the mainstream or competition.
> Both have a militaristic attitude of you are either with us 100
> percent or against us.
>
> ..and so it goes.
>
> It sure seems like Linux is a cult.
>
> P.S. Feel free to add to the list!!

I am not quite convinced that Linux users or the Linux movement itslef
qualifies as a cult per se' but the Linux community does seem to have
more than a handful of freaks.
Look at some of the strange ducks that make up the core group of Linux
advocates in comp.os.linux.advocacy.

Roy Schestowitz: An obsessed college student that posts thousands of
Linux propaganda to Usenet each month.

http://groups.google.com/groups/prof...rtGgkPow&hl=en

Roy is a very strange person with several psychological and social
disorders.
It appears that he has had himself castrated so that he could live as
a woman.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....2ac3bf2?hl=en&
http://groups.google.com/group/24hou...ccedfb3?hl=en&
http://groups.google.com/group/24hou...e049fa2?hl=en&

He also tends to piss off and aggravate just about everyone he comes
in contact with including people on www.digg.com who say:

"Schestowitz is to Linux as Pat Robertson is to christanity.
He drives away more people than he converts."

http://tinyurl.com/ysrz8u
http://tinyurl.com/ysrz8u

There are others, like yttrx who is some kind of a he/she freak with a
pierced body and tattoos.

Rexford Ballard another crossdressing freak.

Roy Culley a sick old man with one eyeball.

Peter Kohlmann a technically inept zero who nymshifts all over the
place as Flatfish and others.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....c20cfa7ca49dae

So in conclusion, I would say that while Linux may not be a cult, it
certainly is one hell of a freak show!