ESR is a person, Eric S Raymond. He wrote "the cathedral and the bazaar", maintains "the jargon file", and is generally involved in the open-source community. Y

ESR is a person, Eric S Raymond. He wrote "the cathedral and the bazaar", maintains "the jargon file", and is generally involved in the open-source community. You could consider him an "influencer" like Stallman, although to a lesser extent. He also holds some unpopular right-wing views, like gun rights, freedom of speech, and "meritocracy". He had this to say on the topic of women's advocacy groups. >The short version is: if you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp. --- He's a bit of a crank, and not very popular these days. It looks like the the email was deriding a license that let projects decide certain companies were "unethical", and prevent those companies from using the "open source" code. Right now that list includes Amazon "for collaborating with ICE" and BP for "contributing to climate change".