Throwing Rocks

Mark Pilgrim used to like helping people. Then Movable Type pissed him off and he went to Wordpress, and the world went on without any general acknowledgement of the event. Then Apple pissed him off, and he eventually made his way to Ubuntu, and the world went on without any general acknowledgement of the event. Then OS X Leopard (10.5) came out and a bunch of people like it, bought it, installed it, and the world…you get the idea.

Mark thought these people were fucking stupid. Hell, he was using Ubuntu and it worked for him. He had his Freedom 0 and that’s all that mattered. What more could anybody want? He even made a video once using Ubuntu and it had captions! Mark was still confused at how people could like getting fucked by companies so much.

Then one day Dan Benjamin wrote a guide on how to compile and install MySQL on 10.5 just in case they couldn’t wait for the official installer from MySQL. Mark seemed to think that anybody who needed that guide was fucking stupid. Only stupid people compile software these days! Even though compiling software is probably part of Freedom 0, you shouldn’t do it because you’re fucking stupid. At least, that’s the impression I get from Mark. I think you’re awesome and amazingly intelligent. Even if you do like paying for an operating system that makes it hard to make movies with captions.

I wonder if too many people threw rocks at Mark when he used to help people? Maybe Steve Jobs kicked his puppy?