At the risk of getting downvoted, I'm more surprised that he's earning that much. Frankly, ESR hasn't contributed that much to the FOSS world, (either as a cod

At the risk of getting downvoted, I'm more surprised that he's earning that much. Frankly, ESR hasn't contributed that much to the FOSS world, (either as a coder or as an activist) in the last 5-10 years (ie, since 2009/2004), compared to the late 90s/early 2000s. Nowadays, the only times I hear about him are when he actively trolls the GNU listserv, which is simply counterproductive and only hurts both the free software and open source movements. For evidence, look at the search results, ordered by date, for "ESR" and mentally filter out the ones that are posts of old articles or have too few points to make the front page: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ESR#!/story/sort_by_date/0/ESR https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ESR#!/story/sort_by_date/0/ESR. The two biggest recent posts were ones where he tries to get the FSF and/or GNU projects to "admit" that "open source" is superior. Fortunately, IIRC, both were flagged off the front page relatively quickly (possibly for setting off the flamewar detector).