Apparently , some people were upset because the Macalope made a few jocularity at the disbursement of open reference in Saturday ’s chromatography column . So let the Macalope clear some things up .
Now , the brown and furred one knows what you ’re saying : “ Open - source advocates take aim thing too seriously ? Now I ’ve seen everything . ” But , no , it ’s true .
The Macalope ’s not going to link to any of them , because these are nice people who do n’t need a mob of angry Apple zealots who worship at the church of Steve Jobs cult zealots virgin ritual killing to the altar of Steve iJobssczzzzzzzzzzt
Whoops , wait like the ol’ Applereligionator is on the fritz . bad about that .
Anyway , the Macalope guesses he should say something prissy about open source to show he does n’t really have anything against it .
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Um …
HE ’S THINKING , OK ? !
No , no , no , people , people . follow on . These arejust jokes . Some of the Macalope ’s honest friends are based on open source . The horny one run racquetball withTux , for heaven ’s sake . He think it ’s great . Really . How could he not ? There ’s a mess of open - informant software package in the operating system running in his straits . If the Mac were to go away tomorrow , which operating system do you mean the horny one would flip to ? Windows ?
Right . As if . ( There is some sort of OS X peel for Ubuntu , right ? )
Of course a crowing trouble would be that , if the Mac went away tomorrow , the Macalope would n’t have a psyche . Ugh , he ’d detest to go in to get a principal transplantation and walk out with some steampunk casemod . This is why he has a “ do not resuscitate ” order .
Whoops , he ’s doing it again . OK , OK . Let the Macalope be clear about something . When he gore a musical composition by Katherine Noyes he might poke some playfulness at open seed , but he does so with love . He ’s really just doing it to get under Noyes ’s skin . He thought that was obvious . It ’s not like he when he pokes fun at , well , Flash , for exemplar . respectable lord .
There are even example where the Macalope thinks undefendable - source software should be used solely , like voting machines . The be - antlered critter remembers when they go on Access database . [ shudder ] If they still do , for God ’s saki do n’t tell the Macalope . He does n’t want to know .
The Macalope ’s point in Saturday ’s column was merely that Noyes ’s contestation — that Apple will have to be more loose if it require to continue to be successful — is ridiculous . Hence all the ridicule . Not that open is bad , just that there is no verbatim correlational statistics between it and achiever .
He signify every filthy word he pronounce in that pillar about Nick Farrell , though . That bozo ’s a fathead .
