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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Thy OS is thy religion


Imagine the Year 2015 AD: Barely 10 years from now

The world is casted based solely on one demarcation: your religion,
except that it's not actually Hinduism or Christianity, or Islam but
instead your OS. Your OS is your religion; it represents you, teaches
you, guides you and inspires you. There are great heroes to sing of --
they've done groundbreakingly significant work in the upliftment of your
OS (Linus, Jobs, Gates to name a few). The preamble of the crappy
Constitution of India is rewritten to include the term "equality of all
Operating Systems". To the phrase "equality in protection by law
irrespective of caste, creed, color, sex, sect" is appended "or
operating system".

There'll be some secular political parties, some pseudo-secular, and
some infamously communal (with deep religious attachment towards their
OS-es). There'll be communal wars in the name os OS-es.

And then there'll be some Nazis who won't tolerate any disgrace to their
religion -- either use their OS, or die! Takeovers follow when some
profilic superpowers try to spread their religious colonies throughout
the globe (or every other planets perhaps). Divide-and-rule based on
your OS still works. There is widespread anarchy in the name of one's OS.

Then there'll be a Mahatma. He'll be too lazy to attach himself to any
OS -- if you format his system and install your OS, he'll acquiescedly
offer his other PC as well (his forefathers used to offer the other
cheek when slapped on one). He'll be assassinated by a virus of the same OS.

Children's names rhyme with the OS internals -- Kernel Prasad, chmod R
Shastry, Insmod Pandey, Modprobe Chaurasia, Ipod Vidyadhar, Zotob Gates,
Bill Nimda, etc. Marital and funeral rituals are tied closely to the
nature of booting and crashing of your OS, respectively.

Whoosh! I'm waiting for 2015.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

he he he...
given the recent OS wars some of our classmates are fighting out..quite a real possibility :)
but good that you wrote something..gives me something to read as I sit in office at 4 in the morning :P
chennai dood

Unknown said...

hmmmmm, very interesting situation...

Sysadmins will be the Mandarins and Server Rooms will be new age Temples

Anonymous said...

awesome fundoo cool ... ahem, funny that while we have kernel prasad, we also have zotob gates and bill nimda .. i am sure it(the combi of 1st and 3nd names) was unintentional :P

lol ...

sam and other M$ites, junta is eagerly awaiting your response ....

Anonymous said...

i was in a impression we already had a mahatma names Linus ;)

anyways we can add this here ...
how will ppl talk about sex.

"unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; umount; sleep"