Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. There’s just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.
Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons he’s driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.
You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.
Least insane ESR post
They’re gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.
Definitely, there was no coming back from that debate.
fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths
So much this
still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you’re-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples
It’s dream logic.
The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.
You missed his most important job, reminding everyone about previous discussions of PG essays whenever someone reposts a PG essay.
Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.
Apple Envy
Launch all the nukes?
It’s just a question of when they pull the trigger on this.
Especially leadership of a political organization that’s basically just there to turn his opinions into code and publish his essays.
I don’t think anything in the report is new, is it? Isn’t this the exact weirdness that got him kicked off the board in the first place? I was shocked when he was quietly added back to the board; I really thought the allegations would stick the first time.
Nice to have it all in one place though.
Maybe the difference is that Rhysider is doing journalism and Zitron is much more soapboxing. I’m hoping he gets the rants out of his system early (or maybe confines them to his blog where they’re more than welcome) if he’s going to continue doing interviews, because there are moments where he injects his own opinion after a guest answers and it’s a bit awkward. His interview with the Onion guy was great, but his interview with the SEO wizard was kinda painful at times, even though she had really interesting things to say.
Rhysider’s editorial comments come off a bit naieve and even a bit childish at times. His good attitude is sort of infectious though.
e-commerce is better than the moon landing
Most reasonable PG fans
Judging by my extensive arguing with people like this on reddit they fall into one of two camps:
Once bigcorp creates panicea AIs, they won’t need to pirate anymore because they will be able to ask ChatGPT to make all the movies and music they need.
They don’t think that additional copyright protections will ever be able to touch Microsoft and can only ever hurt the little guy.
That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuff… but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.