alt Hacker NewsIt was certainly influential. It's just bad on its own merits.
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lurk2 • yesterday at 11:40 PM
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
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It was certainly influential. It's just bad on its own merits.
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.
I guess it depends on what you think the goal of the essay was. I always felt like the primary goal was to inspire people and a lot of the software engineering parts were more framing. To me it reads as a manifesto disguised as a software engineering essay.
If you take the goal as inspiring people, i think it achieved its goals and then some. I'm pretty sure that CATB brought more people into FOSS than the GNU manifesto ever did.