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... it's not like his right-wing politics are repugnant. Come on.


They are for those who hate esr for it and want his existence in history of computing to be forgotten.


What has he done, besides The Cathedral and the Bazaar...?

Most of his open source contributions seem to be littering up source files with long-winded comments and grandiose attributions to himself. I've read a fair bit of his code and it's certainly not impressive. Quite the opposite actually.




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