Anti-foreword to the Unix haters handbook by dmr (pastebin.com)
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bcantrill Apr 1, 2013 | on: The Meme Hustler - Tim O’Reilly’s crazy talk | context

I tried to read it, but my brain kept powering itself off as a self-defense mechanism. Then I tried to skim it, and it started getting worse, e.g.: "Another apt example of O’Reilly’s meme-engineering is his attempt to establish a strong intellectual link between the development of Unix [...] and the development of open source and the Internet." At this point I became blind with nerd-rage and headed over here to cleanse myself...

Ironic that it should deface Unix, because I think that dmr's immortal words[1] are particularly apt here: this piece is "a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271