View Poll Results: what are you a part of ? how do you define this relationship between linux users?

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  • A way of life

    14 37.84%
  • A cult

    7 18.92%
  • A religion

    6 16.22%
  • A brotherhood/family

    7 18.92%
  • A community

    24 64.86%
  • some relationships cant be defined!

    7 18.92%
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Thread: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

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    linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    Well, when I first used linux about 6 years ago.... I tried it out and being a newbie... chose the then-worshipped windows as my primary OS and stuck with it for a long long time. I liked it and in someways still think that Windows, under proper safeguards/precautions is a good operating system (dont get me wrong... Im a 100% linux user and I think that pretty much sums up where my loyalty stands). While using windows, I always read news about how big linux would be someday and how much it has advanced in the recent years. And believe it or not...every single linux-related news had something to say about how strong, closely-knit and passionate the linux community is and as to how quickly this community has adapted a cult/religion like-following.
    And today, myself being a linux user...if you ask me... I just dont know how to put-it... DAMN! so many people from so many different countries whom i did not know.. just came forward in not just helping me install the OS but have patiently put-up with my sometimes silly-fundamental questions and took time off to answer it as well. Where else could you find such a group? wow..... I really cant find words to show my gratitude to you guys (for now lemme say thanks!) and I am proud to be a part of this............ cult?religion? brotherhood/family? community?

    What am i a part of.... how would you term this relationship?
    Last edited by byen; July 22nd, 2005 at 03:53 AM.

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    all of the above.

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    A way of life!

    When I die I want Tux on my gravestone....
    ArchLinux 0.8.0
    Associate Member of the Free Software Foundation

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    Look at my sig for the answer.
    Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.
    - Mark Shuttleworth

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    Linux is like most things. It's what _you_ make it.
    Good and bad.
    /path/to/Truth

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    Linux is 42, enough said
    Regards,
    FL-ei-|X|-iu-S
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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    more good than bad I Bet! and its good because you got someone watching your back whenever need be.... kinda kool! The only other group that comes close to this behavior might be the hated-AMWAY group....and though I would not dare put us on the same platform as them.... the passion is close... though one is delusional and the other is practical!
    Last edited by byen; July 22nd, 2005 at 04:39 AM.

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    Linux is choice.

    Windows is a perverbial dictatorship.

    And yes, I think it is just a community of people with something in common that we believe in, maybe for our own reasons, but we all want to make linux and OSS better.

    edit: wrote one thing... thought another
    Last edited by DarthBagel; July 22nd, 2005 at 04:41 AM.

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    Linux is freedom.

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    Re: linux? A way of life? cult? religion? brotherhood/family ? or just a community?

    It is free software, in the sense of "not-proprietary."
    I lost a "z". Anyone seen it around here?

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