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Yeah sure when you are on top but then there is the fall from grace. As you become less relevant or get superseded. That's when the ego comes out, tantrums, destructive behavior, etc.


I'm not sure that esr reached "the top". Perhaps on the speaking gig tour, and yes he's written a couple books.

But he's never achieved what he so likes to claim.

He claims to be a "core linux developer", yet he has no code in the kernel, and CML2 was flatly rejected.

He used to claim that he contributed to GNU starting in 1982, but when I showed that was impossible, he corrected to "mid-80s" (its 1987.)

I think he feels he was on the way up, met his limitations, and has since been scrambling in an attempt to maintain the position he held in 1999.




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