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You'd really call the guy who wrote this[1] non-technical? [1]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html
by stefantalpalaru 11y ago
You'd really call the guy who wrote this[1] non-technical?
[1]: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html
- geofft 11y agoAnything in particular there? A lot of that is software that other people have written that he maintains, which is perfectly fine, but that's no more technical than running a one-person online and print media house. Much of the rest is small scripts that he's written and released, which again, is great, but everyone writes small scripts. If our standard for "non-technical" encompasses people like Adria (not Adrianna) and Shanley, I don't see how ESR avoids that. (To be clear, my own opinion is that we should call all of them "technical".) If you `git log --author='Eric S. Raymond' -p` on gpsd, you'll find that the majority of it is documentation, comments, style, etc. The code, by and large, is from other people.