Some people would argue by a similar logic that "Apple" is really a rebranded NeXT.

But they did this in rehearsal, in a small group. Pretty sure if they did this in public, their employment would be confined to circuses.

Linux is not the only OSS project there is, and Linus’ way of running it is not the only way there is. Rubyists, e.g., used to aspire to MINASWAN (Matz is nice and so we are nice), and even at its most dysfunctional, abuse in the Perl community was held in check by the fact that Larry Wall is a thoroughly decent guy.

If you’re interested in contributing to a project, it’s easy enough to listen in on the mailing lists and figure out whether the tone appeals to you.

Or you could say “this works as designed”, thus keeping the focus on technology, as it should be, instead of needlessly dragging people issues into it.

I’ve come across an occasional rude manager at Apple, but in my experience they constitute a tiny minority. Most engineers here wouldn’t stand for that kind of treatment. Jobs could certainly be that way at times, but luckily this part of his style was not all that contagious.

an army and a navy!

In any case, Portuguese would certainly qualify.

Happened to me a lot when I showed people my Kindle DX. First thing they tried was to touch the screen.

Yeah, they should name the crab "Kiwa hirsuta stallmanensis" in his honor.

Yeah, I wonder what real estate agents on the Canary Islands are going to say now.

Oh hallelujah, our problems are solved. We have banana bread.

Cocoa crucially depends on reflection features of the underlying language (obtaining classes, calling methods and manipulating data members by name). Lisp would obviously qualify for this (for sufficiently large values of "Lisp"), but standard Ada and Eiffel would be completely unsuited to the task, and I doubt OCaml would be suited.

I could see Ruby become an increasingly serious contender, though. Right now, the primary problem is that debugging is messier than in an Objective-C app, but otherwise, it's an excellent match.

From the Perl 6 examples I've seen so far, the Perl 6 solution to this seems to be—more magic, and more line noise.

I am the local warlord, you insensitive clod!