ESR has always been self promoting but wow, this takes the cake. I can think of many many people who are far more deserving of patronage than Eric. Has he wri

ESR has always been self promoting but wow, this takes the cake. I can think of many many people who are far more deserving of patronage than Eric. Has he written a networking stack? A VM system? A file system? In terms of system stuff he's not done much that I've seen. I'm not saying he has no value but if you viewed this as an investment in systems software I predict the ROI is going to disappoint. If you want to support him for some other reason, go for it. He's done some stuff, one thing I still use is his rewrite of the pic manual, we share a love for that little language. And he's done lots of little Unix like tools for fairly obscure problems. But systems programming? That's my wheelhouse and he's never been considered a part of that crowd by the systems people I know. Systems people benchmark themselves against the original unix people (if you are old enough) or Linus or Cantrill or someone similar. In my opinion, ESR is definitely not a peer of those people. Doesn't make him not useful but it's a big stretch for him to be claiming to be a systems programmer. Have to wonder what Linus would say if