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-Eric S. Raymond.
-Although
[RMS
] won't say it, there are many in the Free Software Foundation willing to call him pure, pure evil. He undercuts the moral principles of free software by running the Opensource Initiative
.
-He wrote fetchmail, and a program to convert gifs to pngs
.
+[Acronym
] for __E__ric __S__
. __R__aymond
.
-He
's not half as cool as RMS
+"The community has a tradition of tri-letterizing its heroes — I suppose that began with Stallman, already a hero when I was a fledgling progammer in the early 1980s, who was generally known as [RMS] even then. LinusTorvalds is just ‘Linus’, perhaps because (unlike ‘Richard’ or ‘Eric’) one can refer to him by simply first name with very little risk of aliasing problems.
+
+I think I started to be routinely triletterized into ‘ESR’ around 1998 on Slashdot; that was a few months after the fame thing started to kick in seriously. It
's at best a mixed blessing. Fame is tactically useful, but the pressures and expectations that go with it can be nasty stuff."
+
+-- EricRaymond
