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    "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.

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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?