I'm not sure that esr reached "the top". Perhaps on the speaking gig tour, and yes he's written a couple books. But he's never achieved what he so likes to cl

I'm not sure that esr reached "the top". Perhaps on the speaking gig tour, and yes he's written a couple books. But he's never achieved what he so likes to claim. He claims to be a "core linux developer", yet he has no code in the kernel, and CML2 was flatly rejected. He used to claim that he contributed to GNU starting in 1982, but when I showed that was impossible, he corrected to "mid-80s" (its 1987.) I think he feels he was on the way up, met his limitations, and has since been scrambling in an attempt to maintain the position he held in 1999.