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 outdated."

You've got funnily stupid and tragic answers above. 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 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, like quite a few people behind the late OpenDarwin project. 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 I really need to get off my chest at this moment: 
Education in schools and universities needs to be overhauled and improved a 
tremendous deal 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, 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 near future will make us much 
more unhappier than we are today.


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