When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor. - Eric S. Raymond

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When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

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About Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to by his initials ESR, is the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and the present maintainer of the Jargon File (also known as "The New Hacker's Dictionary").

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Native Name: Eric Steven Raymond
Alternative Names: Eric Raymond ESR
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People who make excuses for or actively advocate closed-source OSs and network software (and yes, Apple/iOS fanboys, I'm looking at you) are not merely harmlessly misguided cultists. They are enemies of liberty – enablers and accomplices before the fact in vendor schemes to spy on you, control you, and imprison you. Treat them, and the vendors they worship, accordingly.

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