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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by sillywalk on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:57PM (#35955645)
In terms of code, do you know if he has contributed substantially to any open-source projects? I just about the fetchmail/CML2 from wikipedia.

I guess ncurses sort of, but..

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by temporal828 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:10PM (#35968998)
reposurgeon. It was what was ultimately used to transition gcc to git.

Just to be clear, ESR is still a tool: https://np.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1b1wbl/clos_is_an_ugly... http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8730

He's also mostly an ineffective, unlikable idiot, which we should all be thankful for because he could actually be somewhat dangerous if he weren't.

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