http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/metaphor-for-the-day.html
I’ll bet most of y’all would like this. Charlie Stross is a sci-fi
writer & nerd, & he carries the metaphor about as far as you can go:
“There is one true religion in operating systems, and it is UNIX. Or
maybe it's not the one true faith: there's an earlier, older, more
arcane religion with far fewer followers, MULTICS, from which UNIX
sprang as a stripped-down rules-deficient heresy in the early days of
the epoch. Either way, if MULTICS is Judaism (and the metaphor is
questionable at this point, for unlike MULTICS, Judaism is still alive),
then UNIX is Christianity.
In the early days, the UNIX faith spread underground among nests of true
believers; but they evangelized their friends and neighbours and
gradually it began to spread in strange communities. And with the spread
came the great split. By the mid-1970s there were two main sects: AT&T
UNIX, which we may liken unto the Roman Catholic Church, and BSD UNIX,
which we may approximate to the Orthodox Churches. And then lo, there
were many schisms. …”
It gets better from there.
Scott
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long-shot.”
---Charlie Chaplin
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