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So, I understand first hand ESR might be a little, uh, eccentric, when dealing with humans. But it seems that his nerding, taken by itself, is pretty solid. Is

So, I understand first hand ESR might be a little, uh, eccentric, when dealing with humans. But it seems that his nerding, taken by itself, is pretty solid. Is that not the case?

tptacek 1y ago
No, I don't think it is.
acdha 1y ago
It’s fairly limited: taking over maintenance for popmail or forking NTPSec certainly isn’t nothing but his reputation is built on the Cathedral and Bazaar essay getting attention at the right time in the 90s when open source was really taking off and his subsequent OSI work. I’d wager that an order of magnitude more people heard about fetchmail from his writing rather than the other way around. That’s not to say that his open source projects aren’t useful, only that there are thousands of other developers who’ve done work of similar scale and adoption.
BigTTYGothGF 1y ago
> Is that not the case? Not really, see forex the reposurgeon nonsense. https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Git-Not-Yet-Settled https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Git-Not-Yet-Settled