Get off my lawn.  Friday, September 09, 2005  Tom Morello: Mayor
of New Orleans?  Is it just me, or does the Mayor of New Orleans
look a heck of a lot like Tom Morello (formerly of Rage Against
the Machine, currently with Audioslave)? Maybe these two are
twins, separated at birth:  Who is Eric S. Raymond?  Eric S.
Raymond (ESR) is a well-known entity in the Open Source
community. I've heard his name mentioned in various places
(mostly in random Slashdot postings), and was aware of his
magnum opus, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. But, I never really
looked into his story until today. He apparently got a letter
from a recruiter trolling for talent on behalf of Microsoft. The
event was posted as a story on Slashdot about him getting an
actual job offer from Microsoft.  The idea of Eric S. Raymond
getting a job offer from Microsoft is a little like Jimmy
Swaggart being offered a position in the Church of satan, which
is to say "ironic". But, this is apparently not what happened
anyway. He just happened to get a ran