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Darwin:
All I'll say is that it's funny that the bulk of the myths listed in the OP are sort of mirror images of a lot of the Apple myths that are prevalent in NA. I'm not taking sides, though, just making an observation!

iphigenie:
I don't think it will if people read the text properly, since it is about stupid claims people make about their products of choice or against their product of choice's main rivals. I think it is a fun list to keep as it really often sounds like snake oil or magic cure thinking... and putting the ones about macs / windows / linux side by side is always fun as they all end up claiming the same things "mine is better just because!!!!"

On all sides of any technology debate there are many people who will have decided that product/technology/language X is clearly superior, because it works for them. And they feel kind of threatened or insulted by any criticism of their product of choice. So they make pronouncements like these above. You get this from the MS crowd but also from the linux crowd, the mac users, and the mozilla/firefox crowd, and about a dozen different niches. And worst of all in the programming languages debates.

The pragmatic truth is:
- everyone has been copying/inspired by everyone else for the past 40 years. Nobody could have come up with all these concepts in a vaccuum.
- When we think we identified the originator of an idea they probably themselves had been inspired by someone else
- 80% of anything is recycled from previous products/os/languages. Even if the code was totally rewritten from scratch the concepts/ideas/interfaces have been recycled
- 75% of the features someone says are wonderful things about their chosen product/os/language actually come from other products (goes up to 95% in the linux world as advocates think all open source software in their distro is "linux")
- there is no "better" language/OS/program in an universal sense, although there are "better" choices for specific types of tasks
- the fact that someone who knows a product really well can make it do something the product wasnt initially made for DOES NOT MEAN that the product is a good choice for that type of tasks for anyone else.
- most people havent tried enough products/os/programs to be able to really realise where their product of choice is the better choice and where it isnt. which to me means I can ignore them - I think in some circles (Ada) it is called Nebbe's rule: "if you can't think of one are in which the language you are criticising is better than your language of choice, then you aren't competent enough to comment on it in the first place"

(percentage numbers made up, i didnt do formal research on that one. I went at it with a cookie cutter as is proper in this kind of cases although i bet the real numbers are probably higher)

You'll agree that the myths are much more fun than the pragmatic truth.

And as mentioned just above, the fun thing is that the OS/language/product mentioned is interchangeable

arunpawar:
I didn't started to make any flame wars.I started to share the fun.And to let u know how technologically less literate poeple can do to technology.

Darwin:
No worries, arunpawar, I *think* most of us took it that way. As iphigenie says, it's good fun and from an anthropological perspective interesting to see both the similariites and the differences that exist regionally. Thanks for sharing the list because it gave me a laugh AND it made me think  :Thmbsup:

Renegade:
Ok - no technology discussion is complete until porn or sex is discussed... So...

Condoms do not necessarily protect from VD. There are diseases that don't care if you use a condom, and you'll still get infected. :(

Hey... No flames! I'm on topic! Condoms are technology... It takes skillz to make them latex things. :)

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