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Exactly how did ESR get to be so prominent in the community? <- what ever that means.
by biohacker42 18y ago
Exactly how did ESR get to be so prominent in the community? <- what ever that means.
- alecco 18y agoSome famous rants like "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." The irony is most big bazaar projects switched to a cathedral model, in particular the Linux kernel. (I'm not against or in favor of this.) The Slashdot crowd used to hype-love him.
- randallsquared 18y agoIt seemed as if the Slashdot crowd, et al, held him personally responsible for the dot com crash, coming as it did shortly after he talked about how weird it was to be rich (of course he lost it due to dropping stock prices, I think).