Re: OpenDarwin shutting down

Markus Hitter wrote:

>I'm only stunning about how many people find Apple's "open source"  tactics 
>to be just fine. See comments to my posting on Apple's Darwin  Development 
>list.
>
>"OpenDarwin gets closed?" - "Great to see those whiners going."
>
>"Half of the packages aren't buildable?" - "That's normal."
>
>"Apple fails to match the expectations one gets by reading it's  
>announcements?" - "We don't want to talk about black helicopters  buzzing 
>around."
>
>"You can't build a kernel?" - "What are you talking about, Amit Sighn  
>disproved this in his book empirically." (Whatever empirics he meant  in 
>this private eMail)
>
>"Apple only does what the GPL forces them to do?" - "The GPL is  really 
>outdated."

Funnily stupid and tragic comments. I am not stunned at all. Here's why. The 
above talks of empirical proof. Here's my own empirical proof: How many of 
you have noticed that in our so-called society, a tremendous amount of 
injustices are tolerated and encouraged? I'd like to empasise that my 
personal experience shows time and again that the vast majority of those who 
have technical knowledge are not doing perceptibly better than the average 
person, if at all, in that regard. Many of those delude themselves 
consciously or subconsciously that just because they have knowledge in 
things discovered and invented less than 100 years ago, they are 
automatically superior to other people. From this and other ego-related 
issues come the  "clever" comments and reactions.

Apple, you are obviously composed of the aforementioned class of people, but 
don't worry too much, you are not an exception -- the vast majority of, even 
more than that, other companies, and not only software ones, are the same 
but they all have different tricks to cheat people with a clean and 
idealistic vision and who not only have that vision but are capable and 
ready to do real work. You are mainstream, Apple, you certainly have much 
more than 4-5% market share in that regard! And your fabled originality is 
just a very thin veneer. "Think different"? No, it's "Think dasame!"

P.S. Something else to get off my chest at this moment: Education in schools 
and universities needs to be improved to cover a lot more psychological, 
social and interpersonal issues -- by far the biggest problems today are in 
that, and are not technical and, generalising, material / physical ones, 
although technology and materially-related science could and should be used 
to aid the former's resolution. If our society fails to do that, in a couple 
of decades the rotten apples and the closed Darwins of the future will make 
us much unhappier than today.