He doesn't really suggest it; he's only asking. He is relatively famous, as far as programmers go. How many of us can say we knew of The Cathedral and the Baza

He doesn't really suggest it; he's only asking. He is relatively famous, as far as programmers go. How many of us can say we knew of The Cathedral and the Bazaar before we were actually programming? As he says, Carmack does, probably, have him beat, but he's surprisingly well known for how little actual input he's had in the last twenty years.