That's it, isn't it? I cannot think of any other profession where such a large majority of people defend so strongly their right to work on their own terms inside an organisation. When was the last time you heard about a solicitor or someone from HR complaining that he won't use Excel or Word because org-mode or Corel Wordperfect is better for his needs, and he can just email the .org files around anyway. People can open them with wordpad.exe or TextEdit if they like.

I wonder whether this is actually a sort of class issue. The dissonance between being part of god's chosen tribe and the realisation of being decidedly middle class all the while. It manifests itself by turning people into Emacs emos. It's not a phase, I am unique, and I'll run away from home if you tell me otherwise.