Maybe ESR launching a DDOS attack to show how easy it
is to kill Java using Perl?
ESR == ?
Eric S. Raymond.
A rather vocal proponent of Linux and related open source systems, with the basic message that "open source = good, anything else = evil". To "support" his views, uses rhetoric (and sports a personality) that is a bit incompatible with, and causes much eye-rolling in, a number of other members of H.Sapiens. Also lends his name to the term [url=http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/Bla_faq/raymondism.shtml]Raymondism[/url].
A rather vocal proponent of Linux and related open
source systems, with the basic message that "open
source = good, anything else = evil". To "support" his
views, uses rhetoric (and sports a personality) that
is a bit incompatible with, and causes much
eye-rolling in, a number of other members of
H.Sapiens. Also lends his name to the term
[url=http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/Bla_faq/raymondism
shtml]Raymondism[/url].
Ahhh....
Interesting reading. Extremist wackos alternately amuse and annoy the holy living c[/i]rap out of me.
I keep getting emails from Planet X bozo extraordinaire Mark Hazlewood. Him and his nutball counterpart Nancy Leider (sp?) were the source of many chuckles until I came to reaize the real damage that these idiots are causing to people naive enough to believe their rhetoric.
just to get this out there, I think this is a bit of a mischaracterization of Eric Raymond. He has passion, true enough - but I think his views are relatively well thought out. I found "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" to be pretty interesting to read, and again, fairly well thought out. These same charges are often leveled at Richard M Stallman, who is ESR to the next level, in my opinion, but again, though extreme, he doesn't appeal solely to rhetoric, and people called him a wacko commie for dreaming up the GPL, but it's done a'ight.
(note that "relatively well thought out" does not imply "I agree with", I don't agree with a lot of wat Raymond (or Stallman) say, I am just saying that they seem consistent with their views and support them with more than rhetoric)
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