[MLUG] ESR

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

What is Eric S Raymond's (ESR's) claim to fame?  Did he write some code 
that established him as an ubergeek?  I know that he wrote Fetchmail.  I 
read his comments on Richard M Stallman (RMS).  Though I have no expertise 
on the Fetchmail source code, I feel that the following "Miller's 
Analogies" hold:

ESR : Fetchmail :: RMS : GCC && Emacs   (ESR is to Fetchmail as RMS is to GCC and Emacs)

and

GCC : Empire State Building :: Fetchmail : the Taco Bell on the corner

ESR wrote the Jargon File and The Cathedral and the Bazaar, both good 
things, but not computer programs.

Mike
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