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[Acronym] for __E__ric __S__. __R__aymond. "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
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