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Old 03-01-2012, 04:52 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by jgaiser View Post
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.
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.
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