[y_g]

Eric's ego is apparently way ahead of his actual self-promotion skills. If he's so important to everything, why hasn't he been on staff at red hat or the linux foundation or google or some such for the last, oh, 15+ years?

Also, most of the functionality behind all of the services he names is implemented by people doing regular jobs at technology companies.

[meric]

    "The Internet was built by people like me." - Eric S. Raymond

I guess that's kind of like if Tim Berners-Lee said:

    "I built the internet."

Maybe this author can fit some Eric S. Raymond's content into his blog post:

http://james-iry.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/brief-incomplete-an...

If Eric S. Raymond doesn't spend wastefully, he should still have tens of millions:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/eric-raymond-how-ill-spend-my-m...

He's a great software engineer, but I didn't like the tone of this campaign for monthly donations either.

[segmondy]

I was going to ask what happened to his VA Linux money, but then again, it was stock valuation. How much did he cash out before the 2000 bust?