My apologies if some find this as spam, but I suspect this group might also find this a
worth while read.
Full discloser, I have known John since 1983 or 1984 (I do not remember when we were
co-worked at the firm he talks about in the article [Masscomp]. I have also read of
number of his books and liked them. In my role as President of USENIX, I allowed John
to hawk his books at some of our conferences, but other than buying his books, I have
never given him $s.
http://my-thoughts-exactly.wetmachine.com/the-meme-hustler-hustler-evgeny-m…
Clem
Note: I predated John at Masscomp (and I think he left for Sun before I left for
Stellar). I have mentioned previously on this list that MSCP was an early 1980s a start
up with a lot of ex-VMS/VAX guys (that predated Sun and actually did $20M in business
the year Sun did it's first $1M).. Tim, Janet and I shared a card table as our
first desk. I think John and Steve did get hired until we expanded to the 2 bldg in
Littleton and kicked SW out. Everything in the piece WRT to Masscomp I will valid as
true, and like John; when I have run into Tim in the past few years I'm not sure he
recognized me either [although unlike John, I do still exchange christmas cards with Steve
Talbot and just two weeks ago got an email from Tim about something else].
I completely agree with John's point about about Eric Raymond too BTW. And John
makes a side bar, that "open source" being co-opted from the 60s. He's
stumbled on that right. I have always said the "father" of Open Source was
the late Prof Donald O. Peterson (aka dop) from what he did in the late 1960s. But
that's a story for another time.