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Open Source About the People
An anonymous reader writes "InfoWorld has a nice look at what defines an open source venture. It seems that the main area of interest, and difficulty, rests with the personnel surrounding the project. From the article: 'But the muddier waters are around the personalities and commitment of the engineers who created the code. How long do they intend to stay? What is their level of commitment? These are fuzzy types of questions - but we know from history that when the core team of engineers that best understands the code up and walks out ... it tends to send a company into a death spiral.'"
first post.
so they can tell their people how much they suck and that they should stop trolling, insulting and that they are all people without knowledge.
Quite the contrary. All you Johnnies-come-lately should just stick to Windows and Linux. Having to cater to the likes of you is already starting to ruin the Apple we love, the Apple you'll never understand.
The truth of the matter is that open source is a nice niche experiment where people give freely, hope for the best, pray for a utopian society and sing kumbaya around the fire. By its very nature its doomed to its niche. Same for Linux, it runs well but at its base its Unix and not only was Unix a POS for its time it was always a PITA for the user and always will be. You can put a pretty front end on it all you like but its roots will always be Unix. 95% of the people wont use it and dont want to use it because its difficult to use (fortunately for the rest of the world the Linux zealots are a very small minority). You can spray paint a pile of poo and put a ribbon on it, but at its base its still a pile of poo...