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[Acronym] for __E__ric __S__teven __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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