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Interview with OpenBeOS Leader Michael Phipps
Gentu writes "Koki from the japanese site jpbe recently interviewed Michael Phipps, the project leader of OpenBeOS, the open source re-implementation of the BeOS. Read here for the english version of the interview where Michael is discussing the roots of the project, the current status, the roadmap, the choice of the MIT license, its relationship to YellowTAB's Zeta and the other efforts to resurrect BeOS, BeUnited and the Sun Java port and more."
The essence of the Bible, according to Christians is: "Love Jesus, or
you will be tortured and killed." If you doubt that, just read the final
book of the Bible, "Revelations". The non-Christians are in for a very
unpleasant experience.
This theme actually abounds in the Bible. God is jealous (according to
the Old Testament's first commandment); he is vengeful and vindictive
("Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord", saith the New
Testament). And Revelations shows that God apparently delights in the
torment of others.
From this evidence, it is clear that Christians do not worship God, but
some sort of demon. Who can deny it?
And threatening someone with eternal torment if they don't love you or
your son sounds very odd. Love cannot be forced.
Does Christianity have such a weak philosophical foundation that they
have to resort to threat of violence to win converts? Christian revivals
appear to exist on emotional fervor alone. "Religion without philosophy is
sentimentality."
For example, let us consider a comparative study on the differences
between western (Christian) and eastern (Hindu and Buddhist) thoughts on
the problem of sin.
Christians believe that only they have a solution for the problem of
sin. This is intriguing. Although Christians believe that the individual
soul did not exist before its conception in the womb, they still maintain
that all men are born into sin, tainted with the "original sin". Although
Jesus exhorts people to "be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is
perfect", they say that man is inherently a sinful creature, and that
Christ's death on the cross paid for all of our sins... all we have to do
is acknowledge that sacrifice. Furthermore, some Christians believe that
there is no need to stop sinning, as long as you have faith in Christ's
sacrifice.
Hinduism maintains that sinful activities are due to ignorance. And
Hinduism does indeed have a solution to the problem of sin, which is,
through the acquisition of knowledge, understanding that the ultimate cause
of sin is desire. All sinful activity, and the resultant suffering, is due
to desire. A simple look at the world and you can see that practically
everyone is in a mad rush to exploit the Earth and other living entities
(including his fellow man) in the desire to enjoy. The very motto of
civilization is "Enjoy! Entertain yourself!". Human society runs on
desire. Even our economy depends on it.
Desire is the cause of sinful activities. And sinful activities is the
cause of suffering. Fully 100% of man's inhumanity to man is due to
desire. The desire for wealth breeds crime and mistrust. The desire for
adoration results in envy and arguments. Desire is actually a web, with
desire feeding on desire. Desirous to appear desirable to members of the
opposite sex, one desires wealth, a fancy car, a fancy wardrobe, etc... and
one makes the necessary endeavors to fulfil his desires.
The very basis of Hindu and Buddhist thought is in stressing the
importance of the necessity to control desire. The Bhagavad-gita (3.37)
calls desire the greatest enemy of the world. By even contemplating
desire, one can fall down from the spiritual platform (2.62-63), and desire
is one of the three gates leading towards a future hellish existence
(16.21). But by conquering desire, one becomes peaceful and serene.
Although Jesus clearly instructed that "ye cannot serve both God and
Mammon (cupidity personified, i.e., desire)", it is quite evident that
Christianity never addresses the issue of the role of desire at all. Why?
Because instead of understanding the necessity of purifying and
transforming one's own consciousness (as a prerequisite for salvation),
they believe that salvation is a "reward" for their faith and/or works.
Incidentally, this is a major reason for the growth of Christianity
(especially in India).
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You mean: "Who cares about this open source project I don't like. How about working on a project I do like ?"
That's the fun with hobby projects. Programmers work in their spare time on what they like and see as worth doing.
I like BeOS and I help out with an open source project for it. Would I work on another project that you think requires more support ? Only if it's fun. It's my free time and I don't get paid for it, after all.
license
language
audience
scope
For a fact, if all of the Open Source intellect converged on a One True (Relatively Small Set Of) Answer(s) to the above bullets, it would arguable be a Good Thing, but figure the odds.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
What's the betting the AC has never contributed to any open source project? For that matter, neither have, but I don't bitch about what other people want to spend their spare time on.
Sorry. Too many people are saying that OBOS is a waste. I just had to throw in another short-sighted knee-jerk reaction.
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