ESR: Samizdat: Stinks on Ice

May 29, 2004, 10:00 (10 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Eric S. Raymond)

"Judging by these excerpts, this book is a disaster. Many of the claimed facts are bogus, the logic is shoddy, some of the people you claim to have used as important sources have already blasted you for inaccuracy, and at the end of the day you will have earned nothing but ridicule for it.

"I'm going to be charitable and assume that this mess is the result of honest error (rather than, as some are now charging, a paid hatchet job). Accordingly, I suggest some corrections here. Be aware that I will publish this critique if I am not swiftly convinced that those corrections will be incorporated..."

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