What does /g/ think of Eric S. Raymond?
He should see an ophtalmologue
He's a twat
literally who?
racist sexist piece of shit
>>53774870
>typical trump supporter.jpg
His crazy eyes are getting more crazy
He's a sharp guy that contributed to GNU in some way, he's pretty cool
>>53775029
newfag
>>53775121
>contributed to GNU
no senpai hes the guy that started the free software vs. open sores wars in the 90s
>>53775101
He's a libertarian sperg. ESR is definitely not a Trump supporter.
>>53775169
I think you're confused
>>53774870
I like that he likes guns. Kind of a rare opinion in the tech world now that everyone lives in san fagcisco.
Delusional idiot who gets more and more extreme the less relevant he becomes.
I cant wait when he finally snaps and shoots up a mall, all of the Open Sores fags will have to face the reality that their hero is batshit insane
>>53775185
>expecting logic from lolbertarians
>>53775185
>He's a libertarian sperg
He supported Bush.
>>53775187
Nope
>>53774870
looks like the uncle from Harry Potter
>>53775187
Actually he's not, although ESR didn't start it, he definitively were one of the guys throwing gasoline on the fire.
http://www.catb.org/esr/open-source.html
>>53775377
>>53775415
You are mistaken friend.
>>53775452
He literally said so on his own fucking website...
>>53775555
you seem to be misremembering. Also nice dub-quads
Is he still trying to monetize the jargon file..?
>>53775594
>you seem to be misremembering
I FUCKING JUST POSTED THE GOD DAMNED LINK FUCK YOU
>>53774870
He's a pathetic redneck with a huge ego. He's honestly convinced he's at least RMS or Torvalds caliber figure in the Free/Open Source movement, because he wrote fucking fetchmail (literally, his *only* technical contribution; I used in the 90's and it sucked massive cock) and a bunch of pretentious advocacy texts like "Cathedral vs. Bazaar".
This thread reminded me of an old web comics called "Everybody loves Eric Raymond" I used to read years ago (also featuring RMS and Linus). ESR was portrayed in it as a right-wing gun-loving delusional nutjob that he is.
>>53775355
he was cared shitless by 9/11, he's just reactionary.
>>53775771
>old web comics
Is that the one where he shoots Linus and steals his eyebrows?
>Raymond is a member of the Libertarian Party. He is a gun rights advocate.[22] He has endorsed the open source firearms organization Defense Distributed, calling them "friends of freedom" and writing "I approve of any development that makes it more difficult for governments and criminals to monopolize the use of force. As 3D printers become less expensive and more ubiquitous, this could be a major step in the right direction."[23][24] In the midst of the hockey stick controversy on the origin and severity of global warming, Raymond opined that climate scientists have been bullied into pursuing a specific outcome.[25]
based tbqh senpai
>>53775611
senpai, esr was not a contributor to GNU. It says nothing about this in your link.
>>53775315
At least we know RMS would never shoot anything up using non-free hardware.
>>53775771
>i don't like ESR because i don't agree with his personal political beliefs
This is all you had to say.
>>53775337
This comic reeks of Liberal tears and menses.
>>53775924
THAT WAS NOT THE POINT
THE POINT WAS THAT HE IS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR DIVIDING THE FOSS COMMUNITY INTO OPEN SORES AND FREE AS IN FREEDOM
GOD FUCKING DAMN IT KILL YOURSELF ALREADY YOU FUCKING AUTIST
Genius. I wouldn't be able to use my android phone without him,
>>53775845
>"everyone can make their own handgun and go pew pew and kill eachother!!!"
>major step in the right direction
Americans are a weird bunch
>>53775315
This. He is literally insane. Literally.
>>53776033
/g/ - soccer mom's discuss politics
>>53776033
>born too late to explore the earth
>born too early to explore the galaxy
>born just in time for the freedom age
feels good man
>>53776033
So we can stop spending our money defending your country for you, then? Great.
>>53776033
In my country they(Gov.) are thinking of regulating 3D printers because of this.
they already outlawed selling E-cigs to minors.
>>53776121
Try applying the basic principles of cybersecurity to America and you'll see the Constitution works as a massive backdoor to reactionary shit with its first and second amendments.
If you disagree then you should just go back to /pol/ and keep being irrelevant because the prevailing line of thought these days is massively progressive. I'll love to see your and /pol/'s tears when Congress passes provisions controlling guns and banning hate speech in our lifetime.
>>53775804
That's the one.
>>53775946
I don't like ESR because I don't think he had any substantial contribution to the movement he pretends to be the godfather of. I also don't like ESR because I think the very little code that he did contribute is shit, and yet he carries himself like he's Yoda of programming. The fact that I don't agree with his political beliefs is just a bonus.
>>53776121
>only I should have a say in politics because I can't accept the possibility of different opinions, only the possibility that I am 100% infallible
>>53776130
>be american
>get shot
But hey, at least you had freedom, right?
>>53776160
>So we can stop spending our money defending your country for you, then? Great.
Last time the US defended my country was..... never, really. All they've done for us is selling us overpriced jet fighters that are subpar in comparison to jet fighters designed and built in the fucking 1970s and force us into participating in not one but two armed conflicts we didn't want any part of but "hurr durr you're our ally and we say you have to so you have to"
Ironic, isn't it? We've actually saved US' ass, and not the other way around.
>Of course, from a military perspective only. From a social perspective, you guys did help us out with the Truman deals after the 2nd world war.
>>53776300
You think he's insufferable now, imagine him in the 90s.
>>53776160
You're not doing us any favour, in return our gov'ts let you run the show and consequently fuck our shit up.
And defend us from what? Your communist boogeyman that you created precisely so that you could obtain political influence? Under the pretense that you're "defending" us from it?
How about actual threats like fucking ISIS? Oh yeah I forgot, the ones fighting ISIS are Russia and North Korea, while you just keep sending them guns and training them!
>>>/pol/
>>53776360
I actually only know him from the late 90's / early 00's. I had managed to forget about the guy until this thread reminded me of him.
>>53776340
australia assuming you'r talking about the hornets.
>>53776360
>look mom i took over a nerdy CS student joke from the 70s and covered it with my retarded diarrhea political opinions
>>53776427
Have you seen his "crunchly" cartoons? They make those Sonic the Hedgehog faggots look like Renaissance masters by comparison.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/graphics/
>>53776033
I'm Dutch.
>>53776462
No, Norway.
We have a bunch of F-16s which we bought from the US in the 70s and 80s. We recently bought a bunch of F-35s which are not only past due, they're also ridiculously overpriced and the worst part is that our F-16s have longer range and higher cruising speed than the F-35s.
And we're not getting the hi-tech radar prevention system stuff either, as we're not as good an ally as for example the UK.
>>53776424
# R E K T
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Steve Jobs has made all open source devs irrelevant.
>>53776477
>xcf
GREEN IS MY PEPPER
>>53776527
Or Israel.
>>53776537
Steve Jobs is overrated. He never wrote a single line of code.
Guys like Gary Kildall had a much greater role in enabling personal computing than ridiculous college drop-outs like Gates and Jobs, but they didn't get the fame because they were too busy actually doing science instead of marketing, and remain underrated and largely ignored to this day.
>>53776269
>>>53776121
>Try applying the basic principles of cybersecurity to America and you'll see the Constitution works as a massive backdoor to reactionary shit with its first and second amendments.
>Congress passes provisions controlling guns and banning hate speech in our lifetime.
You want to start a civil war? Because that's how you do it, rights are right, regardless of whether they hurt your sissy ass feelings or not.
>>53776228
>soccer mom: the country
I'm guessing your country has a GDP less than 10 trillion?
>>53776669
>>5377677
I'm guessing it actually is since you won't actually say what country you live in, pathetic.
>>53776013
You may be suffering from paranoid delusions. Seek help friend.
>>53776624
>too busy actually doing science instead of marketing
science = mountains of cocaine and oceans of beer?
>>53776827
>backpedalling on an anonymous imageboard for discussing taiwanese tapestry
>>53776820
are you fucking retarded i posted the whole stats for my country's economy including its currency right there in the text.
What country do you think "Indian" National Rupee will belong to?
and yes its below 10 trillion.
>>53776878
HOLY FUCK ARE YOU REALLY INDIAN? I THOUGHT THAT WAS A JOKE.
>>53776897
I am and no its not a joke.
>>53776897
>being racist on the Internet
Hello Eric S. Raymond.
>>53776424
Have you been on /pol/? Most of them would agree with you on all points
Trump wants to stop arming the "moderate rebels" and start working with Russia to destroy them instead.
>>53774870
Some of his essays are quite interesting, especially The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He was a vocal proponent of open source software before it had a name, and he contributed to identifying and formalising OSS as an entity which could more realistically be pitched to coorporations than FOSS.
He talks himself up a lot but put a lot of effort into documenting hacker culture and has arguably made a solid contribution. He's pretty irrelevant these days though.
>>53777049
DRIVER
>>53777066
FOR
I think it's a man wearing a hat and he seems . Is that you? I think you look 52% like Dennis Franz
>>53777156
>>53777026
>proponent of open source software before it had a name
horseshit. it was called "free software"
>put a lot of effort into documenting hacker culture
horseshit. he slapped his name onto things that weren't his and put a lot of effort into sucking his own dick and documenting his inane ideas
>>53777280
> horseshit. it was called "free software"
Good thing they changed the name to clarify what it actually fucking meant then, eh?
> horseshit. he slapped his name onto things that weren't his and put a lot of effort into sucking his own dick and documenting his inane ideas
My, someone's mad. I'll wager he did more for the hacker community than you ever have.
>>53776926
There is literally nothing wrong with being racist.
>>53776919
When your country has a GDP the same as the united States with he policies that you are currently enforcing, then we can start talking business, but as of right now, the US is the single country (single country does NOT include the EU) with the highest GDP in the world, why should we change to your likings? You want us all to be piss poor like you?
>>53778263
Sheer GDP isn't meaningful, GDP per capita is.
>>53778263
When did I say you should change anything?
I was talking to a different person about the policies in my country,you mistook that for me criticising the US.
>>53777424
Not him, but free software and open source software are two different things, which is why there are historically two different terms to describe them.
>Begins improving the Network Time Protocol program used in computers throughout the world to synchronize time
>Fixes many security flaws and reduces the code from 227'000 lines of code to 96'000
>Starts a crowdfunding campaign to support the development team
>Receives $395
>mfw
I suppose Tropes Vs. Women and Psychonauts 2 are more deserving of funding.
>>53777008
/pol/ is very Atlantist.
>>53780638
Even if they were, nobody cares.
>>53775927
>At least we know RMS would never shoot anything up
Heroin. The sooner the better.
>>53781817
this is, unfortunately, as much as freetards want to deny it, economics, sales, personal appearance/hygiene and personality make a fucking difference.
>>53782534
>that is technically better, but I'll go with this one because it's prettier
People who pass judgment based on appearance are literally one evolutionary step behind us.
>>53782572
yeah, but they're also in the majority
>>53782730
Rats and ants are the majority.
That just corroborates that we are more evolved.
>>53782296
facebook moving to haskell
c99 neets on life support
>>53782572
>>53782764
that's a stupid analogy
>>53782850
stop posting this shit on every thread.
>>53775771
He also wrote the software that powers most consumer GPS stuff.....
Not RMS or Torvalds tier, but he's pretty significant.
>>53776477
So he basically was the Chris-Chan of the 80s...
>>53774870
I read a lot of his stuff when I was researching John Draper a few years ago. Laughed my ass off when I finally seen his head.
>>53777280
>>53780638
Funny how you guys disregard ESR but follow the jew crook rms, who hasn't written a single line of code in decades.
