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by fensipens 4044 days ago
I had no idea, thanks for the quotes, especially the Turing quote.

I hope fetchmail makes its choice too and dies. End of story.

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I had no idea either and was quite surprised to see the attack on Mozilla from the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar". Decided to dig deeper and lost a significant chunk of my naivete concerning a certain type of open source advocates.

The cherry on top. As far as I understand these are true Eric Raymond's beliefs:

"It is relevant here that I am a third-degree Wiccan, which means that I’m pretty experienced at designing rituals that invoke god-forms for specified purposes."[0]

[0]http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1573

Then you discredit based on religious belief. Is there a low you won't stoop to?