Comments on: VMwhere?

By: uhmm

uhmm — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:51:33 +0000

Decades of psychometric studies and crime statistics more than amply support ESRs remarks on the matter.

Accusing someone of being a racist, merely for referring that to which the preponderance of evidence points, reveals the accuser to be a coward and a mental defective, unable to stomach and deal with facts they find unpalatable.

By: jonobacon@home » The legend of the Chinny Raccoon

jonobacon@home » The legend of the Chinny Raccoon — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:05:28 +0000

[...] I am pleased to see the masterful John Leach has included the mighty Chinny Raccoon on Linus’ t-shirt on the latest Everybody Loves Eric Raymond strip. Now, I know some of you may not quite get all this chin business, and particularly why a raccoon has a big chin, so I figured I should explain. [...]

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sat, 27 May 2006 10:48:34 +0000

“[ESR has] written about how Islam is evil and is a neo-pagan, it’s a well known fact that many neo-nazis and fascists are neo-pagans.”

By slandering pagans you are acting no better than he is.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:13:12 +0000

If you want to attempt to sue me for libel, go ahead, but when you post things like this, you make it far too easy to defend myself. Phil, not all 50 year-olds are brittle, some of them are quite soft and squishy. :-)

By: Russell Nelson

Russell Nelson — Mon, 22 May 2006 05:11:21 +0000

Jim, are you still libelling me? There are laws against that, you know.

By: Bob Robertson

Bob Robertson — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:29:25 +0000

Shawn, if someone is consistent, then all you need do is logically demonstrate how they are wrong. It’s only “pragmatists” who change their stripes to fit the latest fad who are impossible to argue with on an issue.

“serial killers are consistent” indeed. Giving them credit for being consistent is why they themselves are imprisoned or killed. If it weren’t for consistency, no rational judgement could ever be leveled upon another person.

By: cad

cad — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:33:04 +0000

“consistency doesn’t buy you nothing” -> that’s a double negative you know?

By: shawn

shawn — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:48:32 +0000

phil, I think Jim was saying ESR was old, brittle and set. He wasn’t saying every 50 year old guy is brittle and set.

bob, serial killers are consistent. you gonna give them credit? consistency doesn’t buy you nothing if what yer doing or saying is stupid, says I.

By: Phil Britton

Phil Britton — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:50:03 +0000

Oi! Young Jim Thompson.

I’m 50 already and I’m certainly not “set in my ways” or ” brittle in my thinking”. You’re being guilty of the thoughtless generalisation that ESR is so fond of.

By: drakonn64

drakonn64 — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:54:58 +0000

this looks likes someone was getting really turned on by sticking things up his a**hole, but whatever floats your boat

By: Bob Robertson

Bob Robertson — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 18:45:23 +0000

“And he certainly doen’t have his heart in the right place in regards to software freedom, he was saying that Fedora Core needed to include proprietary software, propritetary codecs and flash and other stuff.”

Actually, he’s just being consistant. He doesn’t believe in “software freedom”, his position is and always has been that cooperatively developed software adhering to open standards, “Open Source”, is more efficient than closed, proprietary “Closed Source” style development. It works better, it is better, that’s why it will win in the long run.

It’s easy to disagree, but at least give the man points for being consistant. I don’t completely agree with RMS either, that doesn’t make him evil.

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:20:23 +0000

ESR will be 50 next year. He’s becoming an old man, brittle in his thinking, and set in his ways. You can read his desire to “have things as they were” between the lines of his blog.

ERic’s weblog is really a chronicle of his dotage.

“Those who can, do. Those who can’t talk a lot.”

ESR isn’t the only racist bigot in the “open source” world. Russ Nelson documented his inner feelings too well one day, and ended up “stepping down” from his position as President of OSI.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:47:51 +0000

Eric a decent coder?! What the heck? He has produced nothing worth noting, he didn’t even make fetchmail, he just added a little bit to it and it’s a terrible program anyway.

And has his heart in the right place? He’s a racist biggot, not surprising though when you take a good look at him. He’s written stuff about black people people stupid and violent, written about how Islam is evil and is a neo-pagan, it’s a well known fact that many neo-nazis and fascists are neo-pagans.

And he certainly doen’t have his heart in the right place in regards to software freedom, he was saying that Fedora Core needed to include proprietary software, propritetary codecs and flash and other stuff.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:18:19 +0000

I wonder why Eric hasn’t mentioned this comic in his blog?

By: L.Loikkanen

L.Loikkanen — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:35:34 +0000

This strip is awesome, it’s so awesoem it makes me kick my mum right in the face.

Now, for something completely serious.

I am still waiting for someone to write the Spanish Inquisition sketch for this comic strip with some thing like.. “Nobody expects the creeping featurism” or something like that. However, seeing this strip has made me wiser in the fields of OSS, and regarding to the apparent(?) egos of the OSS hackers. Also, being Finnish, seeing the comment that L.Torvalds made regarding the TiVO strip, i fear the with Mr.Torvalds living in america, his ego is getting far too big, or he’s forgotten to have a sense of humour.

But still, i love reading this strip, and IMHO, it might be a good idea for contributing artists to publish their strips on thsi site as well, if not regularry, then by tuesdays or thursdays maybe….at least the site would get updated more often, although there won’t(?) be quality control.

let me get to my bunker before the chairs start flying

ok go.