Emphasis on used to. He worked fairly hard at becoming a household name, but ultimately his fame was pretty brief. Stallman achieved meme status, love him or hate him. Torvalds actually ships shit people use. There's just no discourse around Raymond these days, good or bad.
Every once in a while someone trips over one of the pitons he's driven into the wall of FOSS to try and climb it, discovers his abysmal takes, amd everyone promptly forgets about him again.
You're being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.
Least insane ESR post
They're gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.
Definitely, there was no coming back from that debate.
fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths
So much this
still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you’re-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples
It's dream logic.
The point was SSCers reacting. Vance being an SSCer isn't notable as he's a Thiel creature. SSCers being confronted with the eyeshadowed mirror that is Vance is much more interesting because they spend a lot of time being nominally not exactly what Vance is.
life outcomes related to cognition
My sides.
The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.
You missed his most important job, reminding everyone about previous discussions of PG essays whenever someone reposts a PG essay.
That was way back in 2007. Probably close to when I read his stuff... but even then he was clearly still clinging to the Halloween Letters and seemed extremely old school.