ESR gets worse

Sat, 07 Jun 2003 13:31:00 -0400
/technology

NTK have been doing a good job recently of covering the excesses of (Open Source uberpimp turned political zealot) Eric Raymond.

Their latest reveals him abusing his maintainership of the Jargon File to promote his own NeoCon agenda.

Repeated reading of a second-hand copy of ‘The Hacker’s Dictionary’ (the print edition of the Jargon File) was my introduction to the world of computing, so I have a strong desire to see it properly maintained.

Fortunately, the File is in the public domain, so:

… if someone did want to fork the Jargon File, now would be the time to do it. Raymond’s previous googlejuice at tuxedo.org has been cast to the winds. A new, reformatted and popularly linked-to upstart could quickly seize the top Google slot.

Any takers?