Re:The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds)
by mahmud on Saturday March 27, 2010 @09:25AM
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Who voted down this guy?
Linus earned his stripes; 30, 20 or 10 years old, the man delivered a world-class piece of software.
Patronizing him is just pulling non-existent rank so ESR doesn't feel like a fish out of water. Remember, while Linus oversaw the hottest piece of Unix software to come in decades, Eric Raymond was making a living off of "seniority" and "lore".
Eric Raymond is the spokesperson of an "in-crowd" whose membership he didn't earn.
Linus earned his stripes; 30, 20 or 10 years old, the man delivered a world-class piece of software.
Patronizing him is just pulling non-existent rank so ESR doesn't feel like a fish out of water. Remember, while Linus oversaw the hottest piece of Unix software to come in decades, Eric Raymond was making a living off of "seniority" and "lore".
Eric Raymond is the spokesperson of an "in-crowd" whose membership he didn't earn.