True believers: The biggest cults in tech

Posted by phsolide on May 5, 2009 7:38 AM EDT
InfoWorld; By Dan Tynan
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You began to identify with it, even develop a belief system around it. You may have attended regular meetings of others similarly afflicted, and openly despised members of other groups. Before you were even aware of it, you'd joined a cult.

Ha ha ha, those krazy techies and their devotion to particular technologies! People still writing software for Commodore 64s, what will they think of next?

Even though Ubuntu made the list, Windows did not. I wonder why? Is it because Windows is the majority religion (a religion is a cult with an army, as Robert A Heinlein once wrote)?

Or is it because Windows is less a religion, and more an affliction, or even an addiction? Read more to find out!

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