Is the point of this post to demonstrate that Eric S. Raymond is fully capable of being an a$$hole? If so, you succeded.
Yeah, but he is a FUNNY a##hole. MS has long ago ceased being this little den of clever, bright, ambitious creative people. Suits...., accountants and lawyers, the insufferable, humorless bloodless a##wipes who take anything that diminishes their "ossity" as a direct affront.... they are the face and the power structure of MS.
At age 50, I still have enough of the rock n roll spirit left to have a good laugh when those people get mooned.