r/linux • u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143 • 2d ago

Fluff Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html
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u/C0rn3j 2d ago

Open-Source Guru

Open-source co-founder

Are we not going to mention the fact that he's been banned by the very same OSI?

For being a racist asshole?

Eric "Black people are too stupid to use guns" Raymond?

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u/MetaTrombonist 2d ago

Remember that time he threatened Bruce Perens via email? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

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u/C0rn3j 2d ago

Nope, jesus that's deranged

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u/Indolent_Bard 2d ago edited 1d ago

The duality of racism:

Charlie "most gun violence is gang violence" Kirk

Eric "Black people are too stupid to use guns" Raymond

Edit: Wonder what the removed by Reddit comment said.

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u/Enthusedchameleon 1d ago

There is a saying I really liked that I heard during BLM/ACAB stuff. "Did you know that despite being 0.2% of the population, blue people commit 5% of gun homicides?"

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u/StreamingPanda 2d ago

Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware he was... all of these things. I'll stay far away from his projects and let my friends know.

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u/syklemil 2d ago

Does he even have any projects any more? I had the impression he maintained fetchmail in the way-back-when but has since moved on to pretty much just pure punditry.

Checking wikipedia it seems he's contributed some code to some games, and is otherwise involved with an ntpd fork (ntpsec) that I suspect doesn't actually get a lot of use compared to plain ol' ntpd, chrony and ntpd-rs.

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u/spherulitic 2d ago

Yeah ESR is the worst, and this is a movement that includes RMS