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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?




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.




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