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It's always remarkable finding new ways in which Eric Raymond is an ass.



More delightful than remarkable -- Remarkable suggests something unexpected. ; )

That whole ncurses licensing thread is fantastic -- it takes a while to pick up steam, but around a quarter of the way down we start getting some gorgeously understated quotes to soak in.

Of Zeyd:

    ... but he was still ~30k of diffs away from my version -- and his wouldn't
    work, because some of the diffs were pieces of bugs.  So I told him there
    was no point in discussing it until he got in sync - I assume he's sulking.
Of Eric:

    He also demanded a copy of my bug-list, which I declined.

    I did send Eric a copy of my bug list some time ago -- he responded with
    several patches that made the list longer by introducing more bugs -- so
    I'm rather reluctant to add to my overhead.


That whole thread stands in stark contrast to ESR's recent "I'm more reasonable and responsible than RMS" narrative.


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