I'd like to be a time of the day programmer

like eric s raymond

why can't I be a time of the day programmer

where all the fuzz and the media come knocking at my door

and I say "come in" "I'll do this tv show" "I'll do this movie"

come on eric raymond

come down from the stars and teach us a thing or two

Raymond is a shithead and his bazaar model is wrong, or at best, only really works for projects with a narrow focus of utility.

The practical business benefit of Open Source (as opposed to the moral benefit of Free Software) isn't better quality software/more bugfixes. If it was, there wouldn't even be arguments over whether things like Linux-based or BSD-based operating systems were better than the proprietary ones, or GIMP vs. Photoshop, or whatever, the Open Source options just obviously would be better. The supposed quality benefits are bullshit. The real purpose of Open Source is letting corporate interests profit off of the work of unpaid/underpaid programmers, which is why they've tried their damnedest to bury the GPL and Free Software philosophy (with its emphasis on freedom for the end-user, rather than the mythical benefits of the Bazaar model). "Free Software and Open Source are just different things" is a misdirection away from actually comparing the philosophical differences (and there are some rare cases where FSF/OSI disagree on giving a license the stamp of approval, which are enlightening.) "GPL is too complicated, use something simple to understand like BSD or MIT" is just a disguise for "GPL has legal requirements to release my modified source code which runs counter to trying to make it proprietary and rake in the cash".