OT: Has ESR disappeared?

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On 05/06/04 20:07, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>> Both his websites seem to be dead:
>>
>>   http://esr.ibiblio.org/
>>   http://catb.org/~esr/whatsnew.html
>>
>> I check these periodically to see what he is up to. Can anyone get to 
>> them?
> 
> 
> I can get to the 2nd, not he first.  Either way, i can't say that i miss 
> the blathering idiot that is ESR.  He's all talk.

Well both sites had been unreachable for days, but now I can get to both 
of them.

ESR isn't all talk. He writes and maintains open source software and has 
done a fair bit to make Linux respectable to the suits. More than 
anything else he has provided a needed alternative to RMS. He is full of 
it on a fair number of things, but that's not the same as being "all talk."

Michael