Merry NeXTmas

11 years and 4 days ago (that's December 20, 1996, for the many stupid people likely to be reading this - most people are stupid because most people aren't me), NeXT Software was acquired by Apple Computer. I just felt I need to make note of this for you. You think this time of year - the "holiday season" as people with actual friends and family to celebrate with actually call it - is all about joy, holiday spirit, Christmas "cheer," blah blah fucking blah... well, it's not.

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas



I won't beat around the bush here. Gil Amelio is the grinch and he stole MY Christmas. A merger with APPLE, of all companies? WTF was Steve Jobs smoking? Good god, I start getting seizures just thinking about this. Incidentally, this was the beginning of Apple leading us down the garden path. (Remember when I stole - I mean, copied & pasted Scott's articles without his permission? It was to explain this historical travesty of Hitlerian proportions, certainly a case were copyright infringement is more than justified. Unless you support Hitler. In which case, yeah, I guess you're pissed off. Freakin' prick. POS.)

What we're left with after 11 years

NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP are ruined. Destroyed. Finished. Gone. We went from a beautiful, perfect operating system for PROFESSIONALS (that means really smart people like me, not idiots like the rest of you rabid pro-Apple "oooh, look at us, we're the Landed Gentry of Mac Development™" jerks) to some bogus, half-assed, amateur hour pile of garbage that looks like SHITE. We went from a professional looking cube NeXT logo to some sissy rainbow colored Apple logo.



Yeah. Merry fucking Christmas to you too. Assholes. The lot of you.