User:Murph

Hello I am new to wikipedia, just getting my feet wet on the Eric S Raymond page, which I found while googling for esr essays. I don't really have any special qualifications other than I read alot and am interested in most everything. I also enjoy things written in a npov as I like to make up my own mind, although it seems the more I read the less certain I become.:)

Hi murph, I got your message. I'm a bit stuck for time, but here's a story about ESR changing the Jargon file in his own image, including making changes without mentioning them in the changelog.

http://www.ntk.net/index.cgi?b=02003-06-06&l=34#l This also made slashdot

ESR has written "An Apologia", which is meant to address peoples criticisms, but if you read it you can see that while people criticise him for rewriting history, he only address the unasked question that "the effort necessarily "rewrites history" in a way that would misrepresent the attitudes and ideas of PDP-10 fans now and in the past. The criticism I usually hear is that he's rewriting the present, not the past, so as to create a more ESR-centric past for the next generation.

Anyway, must dash, delete this comment whenever you like. or not.Markvs

Hi murph -- It looks like you, I, and User:LazLong have all been editing the same part of the Heinlein article. Want to talk about it on the article's talk page? --Bcrowell 21:52, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)