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Eric can't code like Johnny can't read. He has produced minor, working code (e.g. popclient)or managed certain projects (e.g. ncurses), but he's not great, or even good at it.

The problem is that Eric stomps around claiming things that aren't his. He claims to be a "core Linux developer", when in reality, the only code he has is the kernel are the speaker driver (since pushed out) and some minor use of ncurses used for vt100 emulation in thr console driver.

Eric may be boastful and loud, but he can't code.



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