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Originally Posted by jgaiser
ESR is a well know *advocate* of free/open software.
Not everybody in the free software movement thinks he's the best spokesman for the movement.
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But his influence have been very big. The open source movement started or took off with him and his writing. He also have contributed a lot of code that are used in a lot of places.
I did not react badly on the text. Unfortunately I react badly to ESR just because he is a libertarian of the more irritating kind and I remember a panel at a Worldcon were the libertarian side (and his contributions) was totally bad.