On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Landon Fuller <land...@macports.org> wrote:
> They seemed to acquire a lot of traction on the basis of marketing;
> specifically:
> - Truthiness (an assortment of “advantages” that turned out not to be,
> claims that ignored technical accuracy and nuance, and claims quite simply
> rooted in ignorance), and
> - Outright negative advertising (“MacPorts driving you to drink?”)
>
> It’s a new brand of open-source that I don’t really recognize and can’t say I
> like; it detracts from the community’s ability to collaborate productivity,
> and undermines the objective, rational honesty that should be at the core of
> any engineering endeavour.
I recently read Homebrew described as having a “brogrammer odour”, and it
certainly had the kind of swagger that I haven’t seen since the early days of
Rails. I do think it’s toned down nowadays (homepage’s title notwithstanding),
and the actual project on Github is quite down-to-business.
Davor
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