I never saw this essay before. Thank you to share. A choice quote: > I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlo

I never saw this essay before. Thank you to share. A choice quote: > I blame Eric Raymond and to a lesser extent Dave Winer for bringing this kind of schlock writing onto the Internet. Raymond is the original perpetrator of the "what is a hacker?" essay, in which you quickly begin to understand that a hacker is someone who resembles Eric Raymond. > The whole genre reminds me of the the wooly business books one comes across at airports ("Management secrets of Gengis Khan", the "Lexus and the Olive Tree") that milk a bad analogy for two hundred pages to arrive at the conclusion that people just like the author are pretty great.