You only had to listen.
You could have stopped it.
You only had to listen
Esr is the hero we deserve, not the hero we need
That spastic fuck should have been aborted at birth.
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Turbo-Nerdo
esr is a more successful Coraline Ada
i think esr is a pretty cool guy, eh kills manpages and doesn't afraid of anything
>While this won't directly solve the stub problem, it will at least break the full documentation for GNU projects out of the ghetto they have been living in onto the Web. The functional win here is not so much HTML's display capabilities as the fact that everything will be living in the same URLspace.
>Because the man-page stubs were a kludge to get around the complications of browsing info outside of Emacs, I expect they'll quickly be perceived as unnecessary after this transition and abolished in favor of Web pointers to the real documentation.
>Where I want us to be is that when users call man(1) the normal behavior is to render through the browser. As of now this *will* happen correctly with only minor changes in how a distribution installs manual pages, but nobody has flipped that policy switch yet.
he's been right about everything so far
>ESR's response to him is a riposte you'd expect from a pre-pubescent teen: totally banal, and lacking in stature and tact.
That's it, sticky him.
I think he's the best candidate for the next chairman of the FSF.