Linux and Religion

[John Wildberger]

What has Linux to do with Religion?. Nothing !
And yet, I find myself thinking of how much the mindset of Linuxers has in 
common with religious goals.
Let me list some of the similarities as they come to mind:

-My religion is better than yours. My distro is better than yours.
-Any religion other than mine is evil. Any OS other than Linux should be 
shunt.
-Close your mind to the doctrines and merits of other alternatives.
-Spread your believes by any means, regardless, if it is asked for or not.
-Be disparaging and disruptive of the endeavors of those outside your own 
brand

I could go on for more, but I am sure you get the drift.
The recent discussions on the "Icehouse affair" highlighted some of the above.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why people cannot accept the simple 
concept of open source software in the spirit it was conceived. 
Let the community work together to achieve the best result without being 
slowed down by petty jealousies.
If you should find a particular distro to do the job, then be glad and tell 
others why you think so, without forcing it on them or diparage other 
distros.
The effort of spreading the gospel of Linux has a lot of merit for for those 
who derive some financial gain by the increase of the number of Linux users. 
For me it has the benefit of getting more information published, which in 
turn will help the development of better distros. So, more power to those 
people who weathered the cold in front of the Icehouse to get some Linux 
publicity.

John 
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