OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down

niabok writes "According to a message sent by Rob Braun to the OpenDarwin mailing lists, the OpenDarwin project will be shutting down, saying that 'OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on.' The project's servers will remain online long enough to allow developers to move their various projects elsewhere."

Obligatory

[patio11]

I guess they needed more intelligent design.

Quite Frankly....

[Cherita Chen]

Quite Frankly, I'm not surprised... It is well known that the OpenID project (Open Intelligent Design) is far more promising. For those who don't know, there is now a beta version dubbed "Kansas" slated to be released around Christmas.

Stay tuned!

Re:Sad but not unexpected

[dominique_cimafranca]

Ah, so there's the problem. There were several missing link libraries.

Re:Quite Frankly....

[BitwizeGHC]

Actually I think they'll be both trumped by the project affiliated with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Of course in some circles he is venerated as the Buoyant Spaghetti Deity; hence, OpenBSD [openbsd.org].

Re:Obligatory

[the_humeister]

Make that OpenIntelligentDesign

Re:Quite Frankly....

[kfg]

redundant
adj.
1. Taking the time to get it right.

KFG

Re:At least there'll be some profit

[Megane]

It's take more than a good pagerank to make a name valuable. The name itself has to mean something. There are porn folks who'll buy a popular name just to grab they extra hits, but they're not going to pay very much for it.

Then I guess they should've named their project "Open Darwina". Oh yeah, open wide for me baby...

Re:Apple Rapidly Losing Its Cool

[paulmer2003]

No need for amarok, just do this. ls * > ./playlist && mplayer -shuffle -playlist ./playlist Or ls */*.mp3 > ./playlist && mplayer -shuffle -playlist ./playlist :) mplayer for life, bitches.

One more aspect of evolution:

[Seiruu]

They haven't failed. They've just found a way that doesn't work and leads to death. All part of the natural consequences of evolution.

Where will their mascot go?

[Anonymous Coward]

But some are asking, what will happen to the Open Darwin Project's adorable mascot? With the project coming to a close, the outlook for all is bleak.

  Oh! This just in: lovable OpenDarwin mascot Hexley has signed a deal with Diz Nay Studios, and will be starring in a series of cartoon platypus porn films, presumably in order to pay for a much-rumored PPC addiction.
  Our hearts go out to poor Hexley in this dark time.

Re:Quite Frankly....

[russellh]

Quite Frankly, I'm not surprised... It is well known that the OpenID project (Open Intelligent Design) is far more promising.

Dude, the design phase of the ID project was done eons ago, literally, and before any implementation work was begun. It was never open. I think the requirements document must have been lost long ago though, because nobody knows wtf any of this stuff is. but EVERYONE knows that for a project this vast and complex, the only way to do it is to plan everything in advance from structures the size of galaxies to the smallest subatomic detail.

Re:The way it is

[flynns]

I couldn't let this thread go more than 3 posts about package management without handwaving and saying, "UBUNTU!!!".

You may now return to your originally scheduled programming.

Neither C nor C++ for GUI work, thanks...

[argent]

C is syntactically and semantically poorly suited to object oriented programming, and it doesn't matter how much radioactive spider venom you pump into it it's never going to start swinging from building to building like some comic-book super hero. Even wrapping a powered exoskeleton around it is iffy, but at least there's some realistic hope that you can implement something that'll make the transition from the funny pages to the front page that way.

C++, of course, is the spider-man standin, and Objective C is our metaphorical iron man. I'd rather program in Javascript than either of them... at least Javascript is built around the object model from the start in a way that even Java (the "new spider man") hasn't managed.

What we really need is to for someone rip the dregs of Xerox PARC's ugly-sister user interface out of Smalltalk or Squeak and just use Objective C as a bridge to an open-source programming language that doesn't suck, but alas the Smalltalk crowd's got this horrible baby-duck fixation on the worst parts of the platform...

Re:Neither C nor C++ for GUI work, thanks...

[SteeldrivingJon]

"C++, of course, is the spider-man standin, and Objective C is our metaphorical iron man. "

I think that's backwards. Objective-C is C that was injected with radioactive serum which effected a deep change in original language's existence and modus operandi.

C++, on the other hand, is like Iron Man (or even the bulkier Iron Man armor-based War Machine armor with attached gatling gun and rocket launchers), a highly complex, difficult to maintain technology that has many different versions, yet which essentially wraps around a still-flawed core with a bad heart and a booze problem. And a stack of C++ reference books is analogous to the briefcase Tony Stark had to carry around with him all the time to hold the armor.

Whereas Tony Stark is forever tinkering with his armor, charging it, improving it, tuning it, trying to fix bugs, and maintaining it, the radioactive spider venom "just works".

Re:Sad

[Richy_T]

whether Spiderman could beat the Green Lantern.

OK, now you're trolling...

Rich