RE: [Sheflug] Re:Selling the Internet and Yourself Short - Lesson 1 ( was Re: suse7.0 )

[Ross Goodley <nospam [at] krisalis.co.uk>]

Well the jargon file is always open to contributions, I suggest you mail him
mailto:esr [at] snark.thyrsus.com and 'point out the error of his ways', but
since you appear ,even here, to be in the minority in your views, then
perhaps not.
	R 


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard [mailto:nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:41
To: Sheflug
Subject: [Sheflug] Re:Selling the Internet and Yourself Short - Lesson 1
( was Re: suse7.0 )


Jose

José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> > I mean, if you are something to do with a University then you can come
> > up with better misinformation than this ?
> 
>         Well, you happen to be proselitysing about most of his software
> in this list. The author is ESR, who among other things wrote fetchmail.
> Moreover, his "jargon file" is considered the standard of hacker
> vocabulary. Now, if you don't like it, fair call, but slagging it off
> like that is IMO out of order.

Well, as an author of software he's obviuosly quite good.  But, as
someone who know's what's what he does leave a lot out that should be
there :)


-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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