In the news: Eric S. Raymond shifts to Ubuntu

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-22-02 at 05:25 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> > On 2/21/07, Christian Pfeiffer Jensen <cj2003 at debian-news.net> wrote:
> >
> >        
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-February/msg01006.
> >html
> >
> >         [quote]
> >         This afternoon, I installed Edgy Eft on my main development
> >         machine --
> >         from one CD, not five.  In less than three hours' work I was
> >         able to
> >         recreate the key features of my day-to-day toolkit.  The
> >         after-installation mass upgrade to current packages, always a
> >         frightening prospect under Fedora, went off without a hitch.
> >
> >         I'm not expecting Ubuntu to be perfect, but I am now certain
> >         it will
> >         be enough better to compensate me for the fact that I need to
> >         learn
> >         a new set of administration tools.
> >         [/quote]
> >
> >
> > Ubuntu. "An African word meaning Humanity to others"
> >
> > .... even for the person who just said African-Americans are
> > responsible for 50% of the crimes in the US because they have mostly
> > low IQ ....
>
> And so the character assassination begins as the purists get riled up
> once again.

I suggest that you read his blog before making such sweeping accusations 
yourself: http://esr.ibiblio.org/

ESR occasionally makes some excellent points, but he unfortunately chooses to 
bury them in a mound of bigotry and narcissism. Hence, Everybody Loves Eric 
Raymond: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/


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