Steve Jobs and Benny Hinn (rant)

[Kip Warner]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:30 -0500, Myles Braithwaite wrote: 
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> There is MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> and Fink
> <http://www.finkproject.org/> which both server as a package manager.
> Also Apple has shared back with the community, like WebKit
> <http://webkit.org/> which is now the html engine of Konqueror.
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> MacPorts is based off of BSD ports.
> Fink is based off apt.

Have you used Fink lately? It is a truly earnest contribution, but we
both know that neither MacPorts nor Fink are a result of Apple's direct
work. They are both hack jobs that have been jerry rigged to get the
platform to appear debian like at a superficial level. Of course, it
isn't actually and as a developer, I am frequently reminded of this with
conflicts in its ability to respect the File Hierarchy Standard since
Apple had no problems violating it right, left, and centre. MacPorts is
no better. Neither one of them even support universal binaries for their
packages. MacPorts has gotten a bit better by having some available, but
nowhere near enough for a developer like myself to actually be able to
tell their clients that they can be comfortable knowing Tiger, Leopard
and both under PPC and Intel architectures will be available. I need
things like a recent wxMac release, scons, OpenCV, and so on. The system
is a complete mess and it can't be cleaned up because Apple is in the
way.

As for Konqueror, the controversy surrounding Apple's affiliation is
well known. WebKit was a fork of the community's work and granted the
community did get the source made available, there are exceptions. Like
try getting the source to Safari, which was ripped from Konqueror (GPL
software).

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Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
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