Eric S. Raymond to the OSS community on codes of conduct: Refuse to have one

Re:Eric S. Raymond to the OSS community on codes of conduct:... by roryirvine on Saturday September 27, 2025 @06:23AM (#45394584)

I don't think ESR had anything to do with egcs directly but, yeah, the egcs/gcc split along with the XEmacs / GNU Emacs fracas were likely inspiration for CatB.

He was always better known as a writer than as a developer - his most significant FOSS contributions were probably fetchmail prior to 2003, and the ill-fated CML2 kernel config system around 2001. I'm not aware of anything of note that he's produced since.

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Re:Eric S. Raymond to the OSS community on codes of conduct:... by p_l on Saturday September 27, 2025 @09:36AM (#45395602)

Well, better said would be that ESR was... loud around EGCS? I got into Linux and FOSS essentially just as EGCS took over GCC for good, so I am less clear on details

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Re:Eric S. Raymond to the OSS community on codes of conduct:... by roryirvine on Saturday September 27, 2025 @09:46AM (#45395671)

That's fair! And, yes, he seemed to enjoy rushing into every flamewar he could find back then.

It's one of the reasons this current tweet is so surprising - he's moaning about "drama and politics", "negative useful work", and "shit-stirrers" "who are more annoying to work with than [their] contributions justify", but doesn't seem to realise that all of those complaints could have been made more strongly still about ESR himself, especially when he was in his pomp.

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