[mahmud]

I think I can write more inspired criticism of cardboard, or styrofoam. Please, let me do those instead.

Or just go to his blog and read the second article:

"Regular readers of this blog are probably pretty clued in about my better-known software projects – gpsd, fetchmail, giflib, libpng, INTERCAL, ncurses, Battle for Wesnoth, Emacs VC and GUD modes, and the like."

The entire place is an altar to the man.

Even Stuxnet, the super interesting piece of industrial hacking. Even it didn't escape ESR's blessing wand:

"[My friend] incited me to blog by asking me the following question: “Would you call the perpetrators of the Stuxnet worm `hackers’, rather than crackers”?"

The entire security scene stood up in awe, given the combination of effort and ingenuity. But not ESR, he found this an opportunity to play pope and bestow titles.

[kiba]

If you have nothing to say but ad hominem and calling his literacy output cardboard without backing it up, maybe you should say nothing at all.

We now know that you hate ESR's self promoting behaviors, but where is the substance?

[mahmud]

ESR's self promoting behaviors

The substance is lacking because I am not motivated enough to think harder about the man's writing. Something switched in my head and one day I realized he was the antithesis of the hacker-ethic he preaches. "Real Hackers", much like the real Scotsmen, work silently, are under-appreciated, and often unknown.

Having said that, it takes one to know one; given an audience the size of his, I am 100% certain I would go on a similar journey of self-worship and rampant "blow-hardery".

Ahhh! what wouldn't I do for unearned public recognition and a permanent podium.

[8ren]

OK... I'll just note that that's not a specific criticism of CatB.