Re: [MLUG] ESR

[Shawn Parker <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

every sect needs their weird extremist. esr is ours.


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