how to totally make Kevin's day

[Richmond]

  Jolly forgiving of you. This presupposes that Apple (which may be so 
'managed' that 'Apple' is nothing
but short-hand for 'Steve Jobs' - I don't know) has made some sort of 
'mistake'; howver, you can be
sure that that is far from the truth; the whole thing is a manipulative 
trick to set everybody's teeth on
edge and so that they feel grateful to Steve Jobs (who is nothing more 
or less than a big 'B'; you have to
be a big 'B' to run such a company) when in fact he has done nothing for 
anyone beyond his firm.

I am 'sorry' to tell you that my wife and I enjoy a rather different 
sort of relationship than business partners.

For starters, I don't have a desperate urge to continually dominate her 
and squash her; luckily, should I ever
have a dictatorial moment she is quite capable of defending her own 
interests. "Mutual respect" is the first
phrase that springs to mind.

Developers who wish to use RevMobile to make stuff for the iPhone or the 
iPad are NOT married to
Steve Jobs (the mind boggles); or even in some sort of conjugal arrangement.

Let us reflect on the Brahma-Vaivarta Purana, and Sri Krsna's 
"relationships" with his 1008 lovers there,
and the way he behaved towards them before we start elevating Steve Jobs 
to the post of paramour in chief. Presumably there are at least 1008 
developers out there wanting to develop stuff for iPhone/Pad who had their
*********s bitten off by Steve. The fact that having "pooed" all over 
those developers, and he now comes
"cap in hand" to graciously (Uriah Heep-like) allow them back inside the 
'magic circle' is no reason to
forgive or forget; the wolf has bitten and the bite marks should serve 
as a lasting warning that we are
dealing with a wolf.

Kevin, presumably, having kept his head above water in the cut-throat 
world of computer programming
(hey, guess why I went into developing stuff for writing Sanskrit; not 
that much competition) for quite some
time, is not half as naive as that 'nice photo' on the RunRev website 
would have us believe. I, for one, do
not believe that every night from now on, just before he goes to bed, he 
is down on his knees sending
prayers of thanks to Sri Sri Sri 108 Steve Jobs for graciously stooping 
to cast his darshan on RunRev.

Kevin, is probably, waiting for whatever nasty move one of the major 
players makes next. I am so very,
very glad it is him, not me.

Of course this is why I will keep 'needling' Kevin about stuff such as 
Linux, Haiku (gosh, I wish they would
speed up - Andre ?????), MorphOS, ReactOS (there's another one 
struggling to get off the runway) and so on; where, despite other 
unpredictable factors

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Pause for one of Richmond;'s silly stories [skip this if you have had 
enough of these].

Waiting for a train from Luton to Central London this year I heard an 
announcement:

"The train at 14.25 has been cancelled owing to there being no member of 
staff qualified to drive it."

Open Source has those sorts of moments sometimes.

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there is a shortage of dictatorial types such as Jobs, Gates and Ballmer.

On 9/13/10 7:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Personally, I hate being in a damned if you do/damned if you don't situation. If someone makes a mistake in judgement or treats me unfairly, but later relents, I think it's my part to forgive them and move on. I think if I were married to someone and she was so unhappy that nothing I did seemed to please her, I would tell her that she just needs to move on. I don't think it's any different in business relationships.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>> Jacque,
>>
>> It occurred to me today that Apple has actually pissed off (can I say that?)
>> both sides of developers now. Originally, there were the XCode devs and the
>> 'others.' Of course XCoders didn't mind, and many were openly happy the
>> 'others' were getting the boot. "More for ME," they chimed with knowing wink
>> and a smile. Many defended Apple by citing the protection of the platform's
>> integrity, first to market advantage, and lack of proper API support, etc..
>> They were on Apple's side fanning away.
>>
>> Now, with the change, it seems like both sides would be disappointed. I know
>> as a frustrated developer BEFORE, I'm not any more of an Apple fan just
>> because they change their mind like a newborn changes diapers. Heck, their
>> fickleness cost me business.
>>
>> But, what about all the poor Xcode developers and Apple apologists who
>> vigorously defended? I would think they might be a bit upset-- or at least
>> now think twice before jumping on any license grenade for Apple's sake
>> again.
>>
>> I guess what I'm saying here, is even if SJ likes the developers, I'm not at
>> all sure he's as loved as he once may have been.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:32 PM, J. Landman Gay<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
>>
>>> When everything fell through this last spring, an ex-Apple employee told me
>>> he thought Apple would reverse its decision because, while the customers
>>> don't matter as much to Steve Jobs, the developers absolutely do. He
>>> predicted that developers would leave and Jobs would notice.
>>>
>>>
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