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briandmyers · 3419 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Jargon File - a common heritage of the hacker culture
Still plenty of good stuff there though. Learning is the highest virtue in our culture, I'd say.
Yes, ESR can be an ass; he still deserves respect; for maintaining and promoting this, for CATB, and for his body of work. Same goes for his sometime-rival RMS. A lot of great thinkers can be assholes at times; we should honestly acknowledge the "feet of clay" of our "heroes", IMO.