Re: [SLUG] ESR & Perens United? Wow.

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 22:36:41 EDT


On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:00:19PM -0400, Matt Moen wrote:

> http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/09/2355214.shtml?tid=11
>
> Last I knew, these two gentleman at best disliked each other, and at
> worst detested one another. It's amazing how unifying a mutual
> arch-enemy can be.

Where did you hear this? I've heard that ESR and RMS hate each other,
but not Perens and Raymond.

>
> On top of that, it's an excellent response. A separate response geared to
> the mainstream press wouldn't be such a bad idea either.
>
> Also of interest is ESR's piece of code he's been working on:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/comparator/comparator.html
> Brilliant. If looking at source code requires signing an NDA, then
> create a tool to do it for you. I supposed ESR could add NDA signing
> functionality to comparator as well, if Darl insists. ;-)
>

Heh heh. Leave it to ESR to come up with some kewl hack to circumvent
SCO's NDAs.

Paul
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