Text Is the Universal Interface

Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by VyseofArcadia on Thursday October 06, 2022 @09:22AM (#33107860)

Eric S. Raymond is a fairly prolific open source contributor, but he's probably most famous as an author and essayist, specifically of _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_, which arguably did more to popularize the notion of open source than Stallman ever did for free software [0].

I particularly like his series of posts about his modern rewrite of Crowther and Woods' Adventure, starting here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7536

[0] It helps that ESR's arguments where largely practical in nature rather than ideological. In particular, he coined the aphorism, "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow".

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Re:Text Is the Universal Interface by comfypotato on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:52PM (#33113948)

Just finished "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Good read. Having read "the innovators by walter isaacson", it's interesting to note how similar the two takes on the history are. It's almost like they're the truth! Glad you posted your comment here. It pushed me to actually dive in a read this essay.

Edit: O boy, I accidentally read "a brief history of hackerdom". Now to dive into what I actually meant to read

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