OT: Has ESR disappeared?

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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."

Have you ever met the guy?  I have, and he's all talk.  He exists purely
to listen to himself talk.  Its not for no reason that he was laughed off
of LKML when he tried force his rewrite of the kernel configurator down
the throats of everyone even.  What OSS has he written and maintained that
anyone is being used by anyone anywhere?

RMS might be a complete psycho, but at least he has written some
stunningly brilliant code.

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