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Thursday, December 16, 1999
Insight alert: Eric S. Raymond's next book is already as open and asecretive as the last one, and off to an insight-filled start. For example: The Unix philosophy is not a formal design method. It wasn't handed down from the high fastnesses of theoretical computer science as a way to produce theoretically perfect software. Nor is it that perennial executive's mirage, some way to magically extract innovative but reliable software on too short a deadline from unmotivated, badly managed and underpaid programmers. The man can hack some mean prose. Buzzspotting: Other pioneers were just too weird to succeed in the corporate world, even in the relatively tolerant computer industry. Chris Locke may have been a drug-abusing former alcoholic (as he tells everyone), but he did spot the potential of the web long before many others. That's from The Economist's Christmas Special page on Internet Pioneers, which offers a sizable bio of our own RageBoy. Scroll down about halfway through the piece. It starts there.
Appreciation:
In fact, The Chron has another nice story about Cluetrain pal Mitch Ratcliffe and his company, ON24.com.
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