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Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
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Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
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Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman , http://stallman.org/ )
Also one of the few people who can be known simply by his initials. The only other two I can think of off the top of my head are ESR and GvR (Eric S. Raymond and Guido van Rossen, for those not in the know).
pg
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman , http://stallman.org/ )
Also one of the few people who can be known simply by his initials. The only other two I can think of off the top of my head are ESR and GvR (Eric S. Raymond and Guido van Rossen, for those not in the know).
rtm
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#36I invited Scott Adams (Dilbert guy) to a Google Wave book discussion of one of his books once, and he politely declined.
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Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, and original author of emacs and gcc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman , http://stallman.org/ )
Also one of the few people who can be known simply by his initials. The only other two I can think of off the top of my head are ESR and GvR (Eric S. Raymond and Guido van Rossen, for those not in the know).
Guido van RossUM
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#39I had a quick exchange with Matt Mullenweg. He is not the Pope but was one that I didn't expect to get a response from.
Re: Ask HN: Who's the most important person you've emailed and answered?
#40When I was a young high school kid, interested in AI, I emailed Marvin Minsky at MIT and he responded. I was very impressed that I got a response but unfortunately young enough not to save the email. I really wish I still had that!
Perhaps he still has it in his mail archive, you should ask him.