Open Letter By Eric S. Raymond To Chris Dodd

An anonymous reader writes "ESR, one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement and much of the software we use everyday, writes an open letter to U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd. ESR points out the concerns of 'the actual engineers who built the Internet and keep it running, who write the software you rely on every day of your life in the 21st century' about politicians attempts to lock down our Internet or our tools. A portion of the letter reads: 'I can best introduce you to our concerns by quoting another of our philosopher/elders, John Gilmore. He said: “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” To understand that, you have to grasp that “the Internet” isn’t just a network of wires and switches, it’s also a sort of reactive social organism composed of the people who keep those wires humming and those switches clicking. John Gilmore is one of them. I’m another. And there are some things we will not stand having done to our network.'"

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Re:ESR, is that you?

[arth1]

I'm making popcorn here, waiting for bperens to come waltzing in and we'll get to see another OSI vs FSF mudwresting match where people jump into the fray to fly their colors

Net result: I get entertained, the world still moves, and vi is still more used than emacs.