Maybe because it had an undertone of friendly rivalry, in good old Unix hacker fashion? I admittedly enjoy the passion shown on both sides of any divisive issu

Maybe because it had an undertone of friendly rivalry, in good old Unix hacker fashion? I admittedly enjoy the passion shown on both sides of any divisive issue in this peculiar realm: vi vs Emacs, sysd vs sysv, xorg vs Wayland, etc.