Yeah, I mostly took issue with the bit about Raymond - not the idea that demanding that someone who saw micro-transactions and copyright as a means to fund authors and artist of the future should also cone up with the idea of Copyleft is a little unreasonable.
Still, Nelson have had year's to reconsider - and I'd be happy if they at least could've done some reasonably priced reprints - ebooks.
Yes, I should have made the "Open Source" point clearer, I know there's a lot of history there and I am largely ignorant of it, the gist of it was that it's not fair to think anyone sitting around in 1970 would automatically assume there would be an army of programmers willing and able to work for free, it still surprises me.
Still, Nelson have had year's to reconsider - and I'd be happy if they at least could've done some reasonably priced reprints - ebooks.