Notices tagged with esr

Richard Fontana mcepl

@mcepl Re-legitimization of #ESR will take at least 10-15 more years I'm afraid

Bradley M. Kuhn Richard Fontana

@fontana, I never liked the word "gift", due in part to #ESR connotation. I did get used to it as synonym for charitable donation, though.

Richard Fontana Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

@bkuhn oh wait, "gift" has #ESR connotations. Never mind.

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana, I think you are being unfair to #ESR there. He was a regular #Emacs contributor in the 1990s. Deserves credit for that, IMO.

Richard Fontana

@bkuhn Interestingly, #ESR really wasn't much of an insider, I think, but that's a whole nother issue.

Richard Fontana

@bkuhn No, #ESR never claimed *not* to be an insider. I am not like ESR.

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana, your argument is reminiscent of #ESR's argument to me in late 1990s that he could be an anthropologist of his own !FaiF sw culture

Richard Fontana

@bkuhn Wasn't that a paraphrase of something #ESR said in ~1999 anyway?

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana, #ESR & Wiley deprecated #OPL in 2007, but never did any work AFAICT to help those stuck w/ the license to transition: ur1.ca/3ud2p

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana, #ESR deprecated #OPL in 2007 for #CC, but never did any work AFAICT to help those stuck w/ his license to transition: ur1.ca/3ud2p

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana,you say that as if Mårten #Mickos were the only #OpenSource Leader;There's also @webmink & #ESR, for example. No hairspray required

Richard Fontana

@copiesofcopies Possibly; I have moments of clarity, as recently when I told @bkuhn that #NewYork is traditionally full of people like #ESR

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana, this was,BTW,conference where #ESR said he'd take #Torvalds to shooting range to help "ensure all #OpenSource people are gun nuts"

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana, I don't know for sure if #ESR was armed. We were in CA at the time, which is a "may-issue" state on concealed carry permits.

Bradley M. Kuhn

@allisonrandal,I once told #ESR, it's impossible to be an anthropologist studying a culture you're part of. ESR freaked out on me about that

Bradley M. Kuhn

@glynmoody,IMO #ESR's mistake was believing that hacker culture *was* going to change the world;It didn't really; if it did, 'twas co-opted.

Bradley M. Kuhn

@fontana,"Where's your Noosphere now, see?!?" Anyway, AFAIK, #ESR has found a delightful home in the SF-fandom/tech-geek crossover community

Richard Fontana

@glynmoody Who is #ESR ?

Richard Fontana

@bkuhn Doesn't that echo something #ESR said back in 1998 or so?

Richard Fontana

@bkuhn I think you're right, except that lawyers will still be talking about #ESR and #CatB centuries from now !problematic