{"id":72,"date":"2008-05-26T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-05-26T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T20:00:09","slug":"little-nickname-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/little-nickname-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Nickname Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its not that I’m a newbie, but sometimes I just feel that way. People start and talk in acronyms on IRC, and then it comes out that these acronyms stand for apparently famous people in the Free Software world I should<\/em> know…<\/p>\n

Lets start with an easy one: rms<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that was easy. If you come across this nick in an IRC channel, make sure you don’t talk about the advantages of proprietary software, R<\/strong>ichard M<\/strong>atthew S<\/strong>tallman may just jump at you and bash you with a big club.<\/p>\n

Now, who might be esr<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Actually I learned about his nick not too long ago. He stumbled<\/a> into the #monotone<\/a> channel on OFTC<\/a> last December and asked about the backgrounds of the monotone<\/a> project. He prepared a paper of modern revision control systems at that time (I only have a dead link where it used to reside<\/a>), but I guess most people will rather know him from one particular essay anyways, “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”<\/a>: E<\/strong>ric S<\/strong>. R<\/strong>aymond.<\/p>\n

Now, if esr is Eric S. Raymond, who might be rse<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

If you’re working with web servers, and here in particular with the one from the Apache Foundation, you probably know of this one swiss army knife ™ which solves all your redirecting \/ load balancing \/ other weird use case problems – mod_rewrite<\/a>! But actually, the person I’m talking about, is also highly popular for being the main author \/ founder of other popular Open Source software project, like OpenSSL<\/a>, OpenPKG<\/a> or RPM5<\/a>: R<\/strong>alf S<\/strong>. E<\/strong>ngelschall. If you catch him somewhere and you’re using his software on a daily basis (like I do), do not forget to praise him ;).<\/p>\n

Now the last, pretty hard one for me at least, I just learned today: Who’s famous for his nick drh<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

I felt pretty stupid when I learned about his nick; after all I’m using his software on a daily basis as well – indirectly at least. He’s the author of SQLite<\/a> (monotone’s database backend), the creator of CVSTrac<\/a> (the inspiration for the nowadays widely used Trac project<\/a>) and he has of course, like the other people I introduced here, his own wikipedia entry<\/a>. I’m speaking of D<\/strong>. R<\/strong>ichard H<\/strong>ipp.<\/p>\n

So this was my Little Nickname Science. If you’ve similar anecdotes I’d love to hear them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its not that I’m a newbie, but sometimes I just feel that way. People start and talk in acronyms on IRC, and then it comes out that these acronyms stand for apparently famous people in the Free Software world I should know… Lets start with an easy one: rms. Yeah, that was easy. If you … Continue reading Little Nickname Science<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-free-software","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomaskeller.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}