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Interview: OSI's new presidentInterview: OSI's new presidentPosted Feb 3, 2005 10:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Interview: OSI's new president by lm Parent article: Interview: OSI's new president
For what it is worth, which isn't much, I've been around in this community for at least 10 years and I tend to think that Russ is a good guy. He's more "reasonable" than ESR in my opinion.For what it's worth (and it's far less than what your word is worth), I agree. ESR has a habit of ranting in public in a frighteningly serious manner about subjects on which his opinions are extreme even for US society and outright loony in the rest of the Western world. Russ is less over the top, generally keeps his politics a bit quieter, and uses humour to try to keep things from turning into flamewars. That counts for a lot, I think. :) This is not to say that ESR is any sort of `bad person' (he's not; even though his opinions are extreme, they're not dangerous) or that there's anything wrong with his expressing his opinion, but when you're in a (semi?) public role like OSI president, it helps not to do things that actively frighten away people who should be your friends. On the other hand, I'm the guy who brought you BitKeeper with that oh so awful license so salt heavily.Said license has already led to the total destruction of all other version control programs, the banning of discussion of version control by anyone whose surname does not start with the letters M and c, and the disintegration of society as we know it. Hadn't you noticed? :)
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