Re: [MLUG] ESR

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/13/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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.

Actually, he didn't.  What you want to read is this, which I have to
admit is a bit flamey, but in a classic way:

http://esr.1accesshost.com/

> 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.

Didn't write the Jargon File, either.  He just kinda assumed the
maintainership.  I'm not fond of the dude, primarily because he writes
self-important stuff like this:

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/12/10/0821224&mode=thread

jking

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