Interview Jordan Hubbard, Apple's BSD Tech Manager

Stigmata669 writes "Over at MacSlash the editors have managed to schedule an interview with Jordan Hubbard, Engineering Manager of the BSD Technology Group at Apple to answer questions about BSD, and Darwin in the context of Mac OS X. The interview is being conducted in the Slashdot style, so comment and in a week they will have the highest moderated comments answered. The specific article is here."

Comments

Re:Don't expect any criticisms to get permitted

[jbolden]

As someone who is on both forums I have to say I think Slashdot's is much more fair. I've rarely gotten modded down for flamebait for critical comments of open source projects, or positive comments about Microsoft when they are justified. Unjustified positive comments about open source do get modded up on slashdot and unjustified negative comments about microsoft get modded up. Similarly for modded down comments.
So the system is highly biased but livable. You can have a debate on slashdot.

MacSlash though is completely biased. The moderation makes no attempt to allow for debate.

Re:Don't expect any criticisms to get permitted

[SoupIsGoodFood_42]

Agreed. Although, MacSlash still not as bad as MacCentral.com.
Kinda funny when the best place to disscuss Apple stuff is not on an Apple realted site, but in the small section of a non-Apple realated site.

It goes to show how bad Mac zealots really are. Even the Linux zealots aren't as bad ;)
I think that certain group of Mac users just take life too seriously. Steve is not god, and their iMacs are not really temples of worship. Apple's just a company that's a bit better than some of the others around at the moment.

Re:Don't expect any criticisms to get permitted

[bsartist]

I think part of the problem is the sheer amount of repetitive whining that gets posted there. Every thread seems to be an open invitation for comments about OS X's performance issues, or the need for a reboot after some OS updates, or the price of the hardware and/or the latest OS update.

The fact of the matter is, these arguments have been hashed to death. Posting yet another "OS X is slow" comment to the board is not an enlightening, informative, or funny addition to the conversation. It doesn't get modded down *because* it's true, it gets modded down *despite* having an element of truth to it, because it's just another tiresome attempt to start the same old arguments that most of us are sick to death of hearing.