OT: Has ESR disappeared?

[Collins]

On Fri, 7 May 2004 12:46:16 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >
> > Nope, never met him. Read alot of his stuff. It isn't hard to realize
> > from his narrative writings that he is rather proud of his high IQ and
> > probably thinks more highly of himself than warranted. But if the latter
> > is reason to dismiss someone outright, then we're all in trouble.
> >
> >  > What OSS has he written and maintained that
> >  > anyone is being used by anyone anywhere?
> >
> > 'fetchmail' is probably the best known of things he writes or maintains.
> > There are 2 -3 dozen listed here:
> >     http://catb.org/~esr/software.html
> >
> > Whatever his sins, it is worth note that 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'
> > and related material he authored is in no small way responsible for some
> > goodly number of former staunch MS supporters (like, ahem, ME) actually
> > waking up and being willing to smell the coffee. It is still influential.
> >
> > And things like this: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/prudential.html
> > where he actually has an audience with a group of Prudential investors
> > and attempts to educate them about the economic viability of open
> > source. The overall impact of little efforts like this should not be too
> > quickly dismissed.
> >
> > There is also some good documentation and general reading here:
> > http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/ (tho much of that is becoming dated.) Given
> > the sometimes scarcity of Linux documentation, any effort is appreciated.
> >
> > I'm probably defending him too much {I like his Linux stuff and his
> > Libertarian politics, but his views about "toxic Christianity" sure need
> > fixing.}
> >
> > Again, whatever his sins (we all have them), he is an ally and a good one.
> 
> He is an ally, but i'm not at all convinced that he's a good one.  He has
> a nasty tendency to shoot off his mouth and put his foot into it.  Yes, he
> wrote fetchmail, but that's about all that he's done that i'd consider
> noteworthy.  And his political views are a bit on the extremist side.
> 

Yeah, well, extremist views in politics may be defined as not in sync with my own, so most of the world is extremist.

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