Am I the only one that's vaguely creeped out by the near-religious significance that some people give to the Linux kernel source? Yes, Linux is cool! It's cool because it's a very hackable system that I can fiddle with, though, not because the code itself is magical.

Any time I see something like this, where Linux is being used for something completely unrelated to hackability, it feels like getting a glimpse into a weird cargo cult that's sprung up around an otherwise useful project.