First, the truth is what works ,iOS, Visual Studio, Photoshop... Many proprietary software products have huge amounts of dedicated zealots. Why ? Because they're great.
The bandwagon effect in OSS is a truth, but this is not a cult behavior, this is skills recognition. Just look at how languages and tools have changed in the last ten years, these changes are driven by users not by BDFLs.
When I compare software to, let's say politics or the media, I'm not ashamed of the open source community.
Then, when you're challenging open-source it's a whole different thing, you're criticizing a philosophy, you can't just bash it, you have to refute it logically.
The bandwagon effect in OSS is a truth, but this is not a cult behavior, this is skills recognition. Just look at how languages and tools have changed in the last ten years, these changes are driven by users not by BDFLs.
When I compare software to, let's say politics or the media, I'm not ashamed of the open source community.
Then, when you're challenging open-source it's a whole different thing, you're criticizing a philosophy, you can't just bash it, you have to refute it logically.