Good observations, but Usenet was just an example and copyleft unfamiliarity was just a guess (and in a sense a rhetorical one, to make the point that his "faults" in the leading his caravan into quicksand are very human and I have definitely made worse ones -- even though I'm less sympathetic as regards any hubris aspect possibly involved).
J
On 25 Aug 2004, at 20:43, wikien-l-request@Wikipedia.org wrote:
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 8:21:12 -0500 From: dpbsmith@verizon.net Subject: [WikiEN-l] Pcw and USENET To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 20040825132112.RPDN8887.out005.verizon.net@outgoing.verizon.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
From: Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Dartmouth class project now on VFD The instructor has really gotten his knickers in a twist with this:
He's obviously got an IT background (at least to some extent) or he would hardly be an instructor at all (maybe I'm too optimistic ;-). However, as we all like to forget, IT has ''somewhat'' diversified in the last two decades or so and somebody might be an old pro who knows his x86 assembly language by heart but has somehow, say, never touched Usenet.
I recognized his name from his postings in comp.risks. And, yes, it's the same guy: I asked him.
Try a Google Groups advanced search on exact phrase pcw@flyzone.com . And that's just ONE of his RECENT email addresses. (Then try one on "Peter Wayner". My only concern is the possibility that there's more than one Peter Wayner, as he seems to be fairly prolific.)
Since emails from him give pcw@flyzone.com as the return address...
...and since pcw@flyzone.com seems to be the author of "Translucent Databases" (see ttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967584418/002 -3782040-1645636?v=glance&vi=reviews), why, he must also be the author of all those books at http://www.wayner.org/books/ ...
...which means he's the author of "Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-tech Titans."
Which means there's at least a chance that he's read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."
I'm trying to get up the nerve to ask him outright whether _he's_ notable.