Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. There’s just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.
Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons he’s driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.
You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.
Least insane ESR post
They’re gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.
Definitely, there was no coming back from that debate.
fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths
So much this
still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you’re-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples
It’s dream logic.
That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuff… but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.