Re: [MLUG] ESR

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Jonathan King wrote:

> 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/

Wow.  That is a good one.  He's every bit the egomaniac he appeared to be. 
RMS is even nicer to ESR than ESR deserves.


> > 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.

Interesting.  So he's way less than I thought he was and I was already 
underwhelmed by his accomplishments (relative to his status).


> 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

That happened not too long after he gave a talk for our MLUG meeting. 
Remember that?  Suddenly he was (on paper) a multi-millionaire.  I wonder 
how long that lasted.  I also wonder if he got to spend any money before 
VA Linux went under and they all lost everything.  Or maybe the turned 
into VA Software?...

http://vasoftware.com/

yes, I guess that's what they did:

http://www.vasoftware.com/company/docs/2001_VA_10-K.pdf

Looking at their quarterlies on p. 46, it looks like they were doing 
almost no business and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Mike
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