I’m out of the loop, why do you say he’s a horrible person?
The key idea: that he is an ILBP (or has been in 10 years) is absurd. He is not, and he claims he's not hurting for money.
This attitude denies support to projects like NTPsec, for which he's the technical lead, your take on this concept only applies to current maintainers of existing projects.
Even then, he's converting GCC to git, the latter indirectly bears a great deal of "Internet Load".
So no: they don't get my support. Why would they? Same with DNSsec. Useless project, please desist.
You can find it in the thread on his blog post titled (I am not making this up) "Thinking like a master programmer, redux".
Another fun fact: Cure53 audited ntpd and ntpsec concurrently, and found an instance where ntpsec rewrote a function and managed to regress out a patch for a security vulnerability, reintroducing it into their codebase. (By the way: overwhelmingly, with I think just one exception --- not counting the regression above --- the significant findings in that report applied uniformly to both ntpsec and ntpd).
Additional fun: until 2017, the ntpsec project apparently didn't even enable system/runtime mitigations like ASLR (according to the "Fix/Validation log" in the Mozilla SOS project).
Conclusion of that report: "While the NTPsec project emphasizes cleaning up its ancestors’ flaws, the difference regarding quality between the original code and the current implementation was not as great as anticipated."
Apropos of nothing at all, if someone were to gather his greatest hits into some sort of collection, it should probably be named Bearin' Load
It started early... https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html
And here is a generally well-sourced summary: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
Lovely. To inject some psychological precision, only his narcissism can be considered a personality disorder. Being old, white, or male... no. Not yet.
There is a general and valid concern in our industry about a liberal orthodoxy that makes it at least socially unsafe to express political thoughts. People who share that concern should have an even bigger problem with Raymond, who is an attention-seeking caricature of conservative or libertarian belief. People who have couched their bigotry in far more careful and subtle language than Raymond have found themselves ostracized from conservative circles, and for good reason.
I think the better way to engage with Raymond is on his manifest deficiencies as a professional engineer and technologist, and wouldn't want to start a rebuttal to his request for donations with his politics. But I also wouldn't want to let stand the idea that the opprobrium he attracts is rooted in orthodoxy or tribalism.
Do you have references to more information on that?
It's possible to be an arsehole and not have a PD, and probably most arseholes don't meet the criteria for PD.