Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 20th Aug 2006 20:03 UTC
If open source were a religion, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish engineer who wrote the core of the operating system that would become Linux, would be its prophet. In 1991, Mr Torvalds created the kernel, or core software, that would eventually be adopted by millions of computer users and lay the foundation for a vibrant open-source community. In an email interview with Red Herring, Mr Torvalds says the increasing focus of venture capitalists and large companies on open source can only be good for a community that, until now, was on the fringes of the commercial realm.
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2005-09-11
Well, for one thing it is just a metaphor. I don't think anyone is really saying its a religion. yet. It could become a societal moral framework, I suppose.
The actual contributors are like the priests (maybe linus is like the pope). The users are like the churchgoers. By this you have a huge quantity of people, definitely a religion rather than a cult.
When you count a religion's patronage you don't just count its funamentalists.