Comment Darwin project looking for "Pixie Dust" magic (Score 1) 131
jwz's final lines seem to have extra significance for Apple's Darwin project:
I've been a big Apple fan in the past, but their latest open source move gives me this "pixie dust" feeling...If there's a cautionary tale here, it is that you can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of ``open source,'' and have everything magically work out. Software is hard. The issues aren't that simple.