On the shoulders of Perens and yet kicking his head

> I gather that you are accusing Bruce of having little knowledge while
> thinking he knows a lot.

No, I'm using the formulation that uses "skill" instead of knowledge.  
You can be a quite well-informed klutz.  Neither programmers nor lawyers 
(similar but distinct skill sets) necessarily make good good advocates 
(essentially a marketing position) or project managers.  (Heck, Transmeta 
made Linus Torvalds a manager and had people reporting to him, and by his 
own admission he sucked at it.  Open source project management and 
corporate middle management are different skills.)

Am I the only one to remember Bruce's tenure at HP?  That he was on the 
OSI board before and that the actions leading to his resignation involved 
describing Tim O'Reilley as "one of the leading parisites (sic) of the 
free software community"?  Did anyone actually read his Debian 
resignation letter (http://lwn.net/lwn/1998/0319/resign.html) in the 
context that A) none of the "more mainstream" distributions he felt 
he "should be working with" paid him any attention, and B) since then 
both Knoppix and Ubuntu have made new mainstream distributions based on 
Debian.

Looking at the past full decade of his attempts at this advocacy thing: 
he's shown much motivation, a reasonable amount of knowledge, and very 
little skill.  This has nothing to do with how well he might program.  Al 
Viro and Cristoph Hellwig are both great programmers, would either of 
them be your first choice for a public relations position?

Rob