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12/09/2005: "The Emperor Has No Clothes"

Someone commenting over at Eric Raymond's blog accused me of being responsible for this: http://esr.1accesshost.com/

Let the record show that I am not, but I think its author is spot-on.

Can anyone tell me if popclient, the foundation of code upon which ESR wrote his cathedral (fetchmail), was GPL licensed?

Terry Lambert, who pronounced fetchmail an abomination before God, also had this to say about Raymond's "Open Source" process.

Unfortunately, ESR would not accept patches for the mistaken
MX problem, nor for the preference order problem, nor for the
tunneled envelope information stripping problem. He seemed to
be too busy with speaking engagements, and has since declared
fetchmail to be in "maintenance mode", in order to demonstrate
a recognizable commercial software lifecycle for an Open Source
project, to give business the warm fuzzies.