Oh please don't bring up Eric S Raymond's name so soon after the nation is trying to recover from Nazis and White Supremacists marching and murdering in Charlottesville.

Eric S Raymond has a long sordid track record of racism and climate change denial.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

An archetypical example is his mean spirited name-calling defense of Russell Nelson, who was acting as President of the Open Source Initiative, a position that Raymond had just been kicked out of because his divisive in-fighting and life-long jihad against Richard Stallman was embarrassing them and damaging their reputation -- Russell was his replacement: OOPS!

After having been appointed President, Russell Nelson posted a blog entry entitled "Blacks are lazy", which of COURSE drew a lot of criticism, because it was obvious race baiting, and riddled with logical fallacies and racist bigoted presumptions. Russell expressed that it was "poor writing" and withdrew the blog posting, and resigned his position as President of the Open Source Initiative.

The original blog posting can be seen in the comments section of his wikipedia page, so you can draw your own conclusions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Russ_Nelson#Blacks_are_la...

Russell agreed with his critics that his blog posting was wrong -- although as to HOW wrong, he still disagrees with most critics, and he's generalized his argument to "everyone is lazy" and has characterized the criticism of him as "slander":

http://blog.russnelson.com/economics/blacks-are-lazy.html

So, now that I've explained the background, I will demonstrate what I mean by how Eric Raymond typically constructs his arguments to support his political agenda, by ignoring valid criticism and turning it around on the critic by calling people names:

Even though Russell agreed the article was badly written, took it down, and voluntarily resigned, Eric demanded that OSI not only SUPPORT Russell, but waste their precious money, time, energy and reputation FIGHTING a BATTLE based on his own extreme right-wing libertarian "principles" against Russell's critics (who he called "FOOLS" and "THUGS"), which had NOTHING at all to do with open source software:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/New-OSI-Presi...

“The people who knew Russ as a Quaker, a pacifist and a gentleman, and no racist, but nevertheless pressured OSI to do the responsible thing and fire him in order to avoid political damage should be equally ashamed,” Raymond said. “Abetting somebody elses witch hunt is no less disgusting than starting your own.”

"Personally, I wanted to fight this on principle," Raymond said. "Russ resigned the presidency rather than get OSI into that fight, and the board quite properly respected his wishes in the matter. That sacrifice makes me angrier at the fools and thugs who pulled him down."

Since both Eric Raymond and Russell Nelson lost their leadership positions as President of the Open Source Initiative because of their bigoted, racist, divisive and very public beliefs, you can guess which side of the Brendan Eich controversy they came down on:

"My first thought on hearing of the resignation of Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla: Congratulations, gay activists. You have become the bullies you hate.﻿" -Eric Raymond