[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
[2] http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/cathedral-bazaar/
[4] http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/
[5] ...not really, he's far more balanced than RMS. He's a guns-and-crypto nut, and defends his position well.
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That he's so starstruck by contact with Knuth surprises me -- occupying, as they do for me, roughly equal mindshare in the category of "old-school computer celebrities", I figured they'd just know each-other. I guess I don't really have any model of intra-celebrity social diffusion, and that category needs to be more granular.
ESR is to Knuth what Sarah Palin is to Milton Friedman.
And I don't see anything in his recent posts that would lead Knuth to conclude that he's 'doing lots of real important stuff'. The language alone sounds odd.
I still think its possible that someone is just trolling him - and certainly while he seems starstruck to receive a mail from Knuth's secretary - he's boasted before about receiving emails from Knuth.
That said, Knuth reading my blog seems outside the realm of possibility, ESR less so.
one would think the top left heading would be a hyperlink most current article or something.
Doesn't this mean that the secretary reads the blog? :-)
