Real programmers are not anonymous

As esr so eloquently puts it in How To Become A Hacker^[1]:
The problem with screen names or handles deserves some amplification. Concealing your identity behind a handle is a juvenile and silly behavior characteristic of crackers, warez d00dz, and other lower life forms. Hackers don't do this; they're proud of what they do and want it associated with their real names. So if you have a handle, drop it. In the hacker culture it will only mark you as a loser.

So if you guys and girls want to get respect as programmers, you'd better use your real names from here on out.

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^[1] - http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#style[/sup]

You've maybe heard about this "open source" thing? You get one guess who wrote most of the theory and propaganda for it and talked IBM and Wall Street and the Fortune 500 into buying in.
That's such bullshit. This is what happened:
* RMS pioneered the free software movement.
* ESR wrote some shitty book about it.
* Some guy whose name I forget but I believe wrote Bison learned of free software through ESR's shitty book.
* The Bison guy felt that free software would have broader commercial appeal if it wasn't called ``free'' software.
* The Bison guy founded the Open Source Initiative, which is simple an initiative to drop the word ``free'' from free software so he could sell it.
* The Bison guy brought ESR on because he considered him to be the expert, having read his shitty book.
* The Open Source Initiative was founded and with the term ``open source'' approve by Linus, the Bison guy founded the first commercial Linux venture.
* The venture went public and the Bison guy, along with ESR, Linus and just about every other kernel developer holding stock, became millionaires overnight.
* The company eventually failed and everybody who held their stock lost their money.

ESR's take on the situation: I SINGLE-HANDEDLY INVENTED OPEN SOURCE, COMMERCIALIZED IT AND CONQUERED MICROSOFT AND IBM!!!