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Eric Raymond has some questionable beliefs in my opinion, and this is likely what OP is referring to. I'm a big fan of The Cathedral and the Bazaar. But curren

• DonHopkins 7y ago
  And he hijacked the Hacker's Dictionary and proceeded to inject a bunch of his ideological words and definitions in, that in no way represent the hacker community around the early ARPANET and MIT-AI lab from which it came. https://medium.com/@donhopkins/mit-ai-lab-tourist-policy-f73b77075631 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/mit-ai-lab-tourist-policy-f73... And as if hijacking the Hacker's Dictionary wasn't enough, he tried to hijack and corrupt the very meaning of the word "hacker" itself, by presuming to define what a hacker is, by preaching to people about how to become a hacker, by blatantly misrepresenting himself as a great hacker and respected leader of the open source community, even though his programming chops are lackluster and outdated, his social skills are deceptive and manipulative, and his hacker spirit is mean, vindictive, and envious of RMS. And then there's his death threat to Bruce Perens that he tried to excuse by explaining that he was only trying to "defame" him. In 1999, Debian developer Bruce Perens published an "email threat" that he allegedly received from Raymond. Raymond then "clarified" that he only meant to defame Perens. From this we can assume that he is batshit insane and will fucking kill and or write to anyone that says anything about him or his software. If you are lucky you might get an O'Rielly book about you. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: email threat From: bruce@perens.com Date: 5 Apr 1999 22:48:42 -0000 Message-id: <19990405224842.2386.qmail@perens.com> Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message was copied to the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group officers, who you may consult regarding its authenticity. The police have been notified. Because I know that Eric is a firearms enthusiast, for my own protection, I feel the best strategy is for me to publicize the threat widely. Thanks Bruce Perens > Damn straight I took it personally. And if you ever again behave like > that kind of disruptive asshole in public, insult me, and jeopardize > the interests of our entire tribe, I'll take it just as personally -- > and I will find a way to make you regret it. Watch your step. The irony of Eric S Raymond threatening someone else for behaving "like that kind of disruptive asshole in public" is rich -- very rich. https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/bruce-perens-dead https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/bruce-perens-dead https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/2 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/2 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/3 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/3 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/4 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/4 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/5 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/5 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/6 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/6 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/7 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/7 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/8 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/8 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/9 https://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/cat/bruce-perens/page/9