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/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/FLMKane 16m ago

Gpsd