well it does say "happy april fools day the end" :)
The nice thing about Open Source is that it tends to be a little bit more immune to that corporate drum beat since there are less full time salesmen and marketeers. The void seems to fill with fanbois though.
I love Scala and have been using it for a couple of years but I've been through nearly all the stages described in the article. Eventually I got so frustrated I gave up and learned Clojure !!
Did you ever mock something or exaggerated a fact to make it funny, but in reality, you meant it like that? ;)