Why Eric is doing this [LWN.net]

Why Eric is doing this

Posted Jul 1, 2005 22:57 UTC (Fri) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)
In reply to: Why Eric is doing this by BrucePerens
Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)

And sometimes he does RMS-bashing for no reason I can understand. He did a paper a while back purporting to prove that many more people said "Open Source" than "Free Software". It seemed to me to be picking a fight with no productive purpose.

Which was entirely silly, as he did it on the SourceForge site, where *every single page* has the phrase 'Open Source' at the bottom in the context of the "Open Source Technology Group."

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Why Eric is doing this

Posted Jul 3, 2005 10:27 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

You can read a numerical analysis of the errors. There were methodological problems in the results of sourceforge.net, savannah, news.com and whole-web; basically the whole essay was flawed. To his credit, esr included a cautionary note in his essay, but it has not been followed through with a correction.