A rift in the NTP world
A rift in the NTP world
Posted Feb 9, 2017 17:07 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)In reply to: A rift in the NTP world by michel
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The person in question is Eric S. Raymond, who isn't exactly a nobody in the community. He's done a number of interesting things over the years – including co-founding the Open Source Initiative – but excessive modesty about his personal accomplishments and influence on the field has never been one of his vices :^)
Posted Feb 9, 2017 17:23 UTC (Thu)
by michel (subscriber, #10186)
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Posted Feb 12, 2017 14:07 UTC (Sun)
by jubal (subscriber, #67202)
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I'm very well aware of some of the individuals involved :-).
A rift in the NTP world
But as paulj also observes he's not the only abrasive (IMO of course) contributor.
esr is a rare case, though: there are not that many personalities in the FOSS world who make whole classes of potential contributors feel unwelcome – by the sheer force of their personality.
A rift in the NTP world