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-[Acronym] for __E__ric __S__.
__R__aymond.
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__R__aymond.
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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.
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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."
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-- EricRaymond
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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''