Re: [tlug] What's with this anti-Apple tirade? [was: 2014-05-10 Linux Quiz]

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 12 May 2014 11:40, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Every morning I pray thanks that I was chosen to work on XEmacs rather than Emacs! :-)

And every morning I shed a tear of sadness that all my lovely Clojure
modes don't work well on XEmacs, and thus I must wander the wasteland
of GNU Emacs. :(

> ESR has contributed quite a few nice programs, actually, although you
> may not run into them if you're not an OSS hacker.

ESR is very concerned with lessening the "friction cost" of software
development, and has written many excellent tools to enable
developers. I remember writing Gentoo ebuilds for a lot of his stuff
10 years ago when I was still a Gentoo dev. :) He wrote a nice little
Python program called ssh-installkeys, which encouraged the OpenSSH
guys to add ssh-copy-id, which is the first ESR tool that I dealt
with. I was quite chuffed to get a reply from him when I emailed him
to let him know that it was in Gentoo. :)

--Josh