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I don't know why this is being downvoted. Whether you like ESR or not, he is notable for all of these things. Plus founding the Open Source Initiative. And he m
by thehardsphere 10y ago
I don't know why this is being downvoted. Whether you like ESR or not, he is notable for all of these things. Plus founding the Open Source Initiative. And he maintains GPSD.
One can debate whether these things are all valuable, and how any value they may have may fit into how to judge him as a person along with his flaws, but they are notable.
- coldtea 10y ago>Plus founding the Open Source Initiative. Which is notable itself (OSI) because?
- thehardsphere 10y agoBecause they basically invented the term "open source." Prior to them the biggest thing in popularizing what we now call "open source" was RMS and the Free Software Foundation, which lots of people were turned off by. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
- tptacek 10y agoNo, the biggest thing that popularized what we now call "open source" was (obviously) Linux --- which was the wave OSI caught.
- thehardsphere 10y agoI meant the literal words "open source" as the term to refer to the practices that created software like Linux.
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