This has quite amazing amounts of stop energy.
Please make it stop!
If people want to develop crazy things and explore new ideas, please let them. If you don’t agree, please shut up or prove the guy wrong using code.
I don’t care whether or not it’s crack. The very fact that somebody is exploring alternatives and putting his time in it, makes it already interesting for at least one person. If he wants others to enjoy his work, it’s his right to do so. It doesn’t mean that somebody has to agree. And Joe, it certainly doesn’t mean that somebody has to insult him.
If fact, you and Ross are in my opinion scaring away potential developers who’d like to join our free software community.