[sdevlin]

ESR is a racist and a misogynist. And that document might as well be called "how to be ESR".

[pedrodelfino]

What if we separated his work from himself?

I don't know Eric enough. I know he is right wing, but not sure if he is racist.

Suppose he is a racist, can't his text about being a hacker be great?

I read "How to become a hacker" in 2014. It is awesome and he does not say anything about woman and race on the text.

According to some historians, Da Vinci was a dushbag. Should we ignore his crafts just because, apparently, he was a bad person?

I don't think so.

[tptacek]

That's true, but the bigger problem with the document is that ESR's role in "hacking" is largely "making things to assign CVEs to".

[ms7]

Care to share a source for that?

[tptacek]

The cites would fill the whole thread. You can take his word for it.

[sdevlin]

Just read his blog.

[notduncansmith]

Just read the linked post in full and that's an awfully reductive comment on the experiences he describes there. I suggest taking a more intellectually honest look at that writing (not to defend any of his other writing or views, which I haven't read).