>no "worst nightmare"
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=208
<If you had bothered to do five seconds of background checking, you
might have discovered that I am the guy who responded to Craig
Mundie's "Who are you?" with "I'm your worst nightmare", and that I've
in fact been something pretty close to your company's worst nightmare
since about 1997. You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing?
You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it
and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in.
But don't think I'm trying to destroy your company. Oh, no; I'd be
just as determined to do in any other proprietary-software monopoly,
and the community I helped found is well on its way to accomplishing
>only includes him sperging out because someone dared to correct dennis ritchie in the footnotes
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.arch/GUA7AtDPy84/U4y8Squ7gScJ
<I've seen bonehead idiocy on the net before, but this tops it all -- this takes
the cut-glass flyswatter. Mr. Firth, do you *read* what you're replying to
before you pontificate? Didn't the name `Dennis Ritchie' register in whatever
soggy lump of excrement you're using as a central nervous system? Do you
realize that the person you just incorrectly `corrected' on a point of C's
intellectual antecedents is the *inventor of C himself*!?!
<Sheesh. No *wonder* Dennis doesn't post more often.
<Next time dmr posts something, I suggest you shut up and listen. Respectfully.
>muh racism
this article is shit