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Salon on JWZ/Emacs/Mozilla/AOL and Nightclubs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-I-be-known-by-my-initials-too? dept.

genehckr writes "Salon has an article about how JWZ has been spending his time since leaving Netscape/AOL/Mozilla -- he's working on buying a nightclub in San Francisco. The article also delves into JWZ's personality, and some of the history behind the JWZ/RMS Lucid Emacs/emacs split -- an interesting read. " Ok, I put it under the Mozilla icon because I don't have a 'San Francisco Nightclub Icon'. Interesting article covering stuff that we don't usually see around here.

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  1. jwz == altruistic nerd? by wavelet · · Score: 4
    Maybe altruistic is a bit too generous, but following jwz for a while it seems like he is very true to himself. Much like Linus he seems somewhat unchanged by his fame and money. Ok so he's got more money. His arrogance today seems to be no more than his arrogance several years back.

    Perhaps it's the malleability of code that makes some programmers, especially free software programmers, so optimistic that they can fix things, that problems are solvable, that a solution is always waiting to be found. Software can be fixed. Programmers live in a world where reality can be shaped according to their will -- all they have to do is write another line of code.

    A fairly interesting insite into why hackers are so powerful. Now only do they think they can fix things... in many instances they actually do. All the hub-bub about the freedom on information, ie the state of "the net" is all about hackers knowing they can change things. Shows like Triumph of the Nerds attempts to document this phenomenon. It also seems to celebrate the power and influence of nerddom as if nerds have something to prove.