Flutterby™! :

Everyone's been passing about Eric S. Raymond's self-pitying call for someone else to pick up his work, but we're all responsible for building our own brand, and that's what Eric's been doing. I didn't discover Linux because of Eric, good software will continue to be written whether or not "the evil empire" is successfully fought. Now I admit that I could use a little cheerleading at times, and my own free software is sadly underused, but... Dude, evangelism isn't a cross anyone has to bear if the cause will stand on its own merits; just drop it. Eric W. Sink of AbiSource has one take on Eric's cry for help, Bruce Perens has another, calling for speakers, not leaders, and there's a rather funny parody of the ESR essay as well.