> `git log --author='Eric S. Raymond'`
On which repo? The current one only goes back to 2005.
ESR is common name, this is the first I've heard of Shanley. I'm really hoping you're not talking about the twitter personality. If you're putting that person and ESR on the same level I don't know what to say.
I would suggest, though, that you think about why ESR is such a common name to you. He's a genius at self-marketing, and he's managed to set himself up as the arbiter of hacker culture while mostly just writing things about other people's code. Shanley is also a genius at self-marketing: although her goals are very different, it's useful for her political goals for you to think of her the way you do. If all you think of either of them is their online personas, you're being played, and they're winning.
I've never heard of Shanley until today and glancing through what she does it's inflammatory political theater.
> it's useful for her political goals for you to think of her the way you do
I dislike her because people who are that combative make me uncomfortable, not because I can't handle what she says. It's a shame people like her have degraded our culture to a point where having people dislike you is a sign that you're saying something worthwhile.
Really, a recent post is:
> i hate when people make shitty acoustic covers of pop songs just fucking stop you suck at guitar and singing
That's just abusive. But if I don't like her it's a good thing? I'm at a loss, this is like junior high all over again.
Like I said earlier, I can't tell if you're trolling or not.
Honestly I don't care if these twitter personalities are "technical" or not. We're not talking about Adria and Shanley because of their technical ideas, or their ideas about technology because as far as I know they have none. They're famous for their social activism.