Not only that, but we're even seeing an opposite trend where people are now actually starting to tear down and attack the principles of Unix that were once so cherished. The only problem is they're doing it in favor of adopting concepts from consumer operating systems, which is even worse than sticking to the aging primitives of the 1970s, as the latter at least provide a coherent model.

Things are changing in the Linux world. Just not in a particularly positive direction.

Moral of the story: Linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) is real. It doesn't apply just to human languages, but technology as well. People with broken mindsets will carry over their baggage with them and poison even already mediocre environments.

More depressing though, is the anti-BSD sentiment present amongst many Linux users. Mostly because of how ironic it is.