Every once and a while ESR does do something pretty good.
I like Gpsd, for example (I don't know how responsible exactly he is for it, but it's something that he's worked on at least). It's a nice approach to the problem instead of the traditional method of simply programming individual gps device support into the gps-using applications. Then you get network support to boot.
Posted Jan 15, 2009 23:13 UTC (Thu) by roblucid (subscriber, #48964)
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ESR also goes out of his way to share small stuff likes small tools, that are handy but aren't going to earn kudos.
One I have is a bash script, for simulating RH's chkconfig for init script link management in an rc.d directory, complete with a man page. When I found it in email archive, it was about a month later so I wasn't able to ask him if he wouldn't mind re-writing it in python *wink*
If ESR reads this, then belated thanks for that contribution.