What the hell am I rambling about? Well lets put it simply. OS X is written on top of UNIX. UNIX has things in place that have been crafted carefully over decades to ensure stability and security. When Apple wrote OS X they carried these right on up to the user level, making the whole OS stable and secure. Yet still these morons insist on hacking it about, like they did OS 9 and earlier, to make stuff work the easy way. This compromises the integrity of what is otherwise a great OS.

Take ‘Unsanity’ (singled out right at the beginning of said article). They are the Kings of Beige Box Idoits™ in my opinion. Their most popular product, APE, is an open framework for bad and dirty hacks for OS X, basically. The fact it exists at all is a travesty. The fact it caused Apple huge headaches and bad press during the launch of OS X 10.5 Leopard is an apt and vivid illustration of just how bad it really is.

The article goes on to describe also a paper from a dev conference specifically detailing how and why overriding application behaviour is good. I’ll give you a clue IT ISN’T GOOD!

It’s clear this breed of Beige Box Idoits™ has no clue how a real Operating System is supposed to work. They probably belong to the same camp of half-assed developers that keep complaining that Windows Vista’s User Access Control has stopped their application from working.