[CoolGuySteve]

At Apple we would see this tone all the time from people on the VLC project. It got so bad that the senior people would refer to them as DCS, Drunken College Student.

It got so bad that we mostly ignored them. It wasn't good for either VLC or QuickTime.

[dagmx]

Honestly, there’s the ego if “we did this when the paid elites didn’t” in a lot of open source communities. I contribute to many projects and it always rubs me the wrong way because they don’t consider how many other variables the team has to juggle, and what priorities are like. To be clear, I’m not saying this is everyone, and it’s often the vast minority but it also often goes unchecked and unchallenged when it does come up.

Of course part of that is because corporate development is a black box from the outside , but even if it weren’t, there’s no way people would keep up with it anyway.

[goalieca]

If people are still finding bugs in Donald Knuth’s code, then surely any one of us will fare worse when under the microscope.

[gjsman-1000]

Hilariously, this isn’t Apple’s first time with funny acronyms. The “Sagan” project got sued, so it was internally renamed to the “BHA” project. Sagan then sued Apple again once he figured out that meant “Butt-Head Astronomer.” He lost because it wasn’t even a publicly facing name, and even if it was, that’s hardly defamation.

[diligiant]

You made my day with this comment.

[astrange]

That's just what all French people are like.