http://irish.teledyn.com/node/582 Comments for "Everybody loves Eric Raymond" en http://irish.teledyn.com/node/582 <p>I read the <a href="http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/sell-out">first one</a> from the link off my sidebar aggregator, probably an artifact of the BoingBoing.net coverage percolating through the blogs, and frankly, I didn't get it. Made me think of kittens, viking kittens getting their war on or something. But I couldn't resist a link that said "<a href="http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/everybody-loves-john-dvorak">Everybody loves John Dvorak</a>" because that seemed just too incredible to be true, and from there, I was hooked. </p> <p>An early comment by RMS calls the content 'shallow' but let me tell you folks, I know of no other geek-theme comic strip that provides footnotes and references.<br /> <blockquote><cite class="blog-source">This strip in general is so amazingly, fatally nerdy it reduces me to a kind of giggly, yet ashamed, geek stupor. I read them all this afternoon and I love it! If you can work in a GNAA reference my bliss will be complete.</cite><br /> <i class="blog-source">[ via <a href="http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/sell-out#comment-58">reader comment</a> ]</i></p></blockquote> <p>Far from shallow, this stuff is wicked deep. Pure slapstick, sharp barbs jabbing straight to the sore spot on the soft underbelly of free software. It's all there in hilarious GIMP technicolour, BitCollider, the collapse of Transmedia, paper mach&#233; projects for VA-Linux shares, RMS getting ESR in a headlock ... and I'm not sure, but I think with the advent of John Leech's "<a title="Everybody loves Eric Raymond is published late every Tuesday" href="http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond">ELER</a>", The Communiqu&#233; just became obsolete.</p> http://irish.teledyn.com/node/582#comments Opensource Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:41:25 -0400 garym 582 at http://irish.teledyn.com