When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
Eric S. RaymondThe Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.
Eric S. RaymondEqually, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Eric S. RaymondThe beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
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