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Neither for the author nor for DJB. I was on the mailing list when dietlibc and libowfat (the alternative, non-traditional, DJB-inspired core library) were created. Was an interesting time and I liked the philosophy way more than e.g. the whole 'suckless' stuff (which is more in the Plan 9 corner).

I don't regard "fanboy" as a derogatory term, by the way.

There was quite a lot of development and thoughts back then, but in recent years I hadn't heard a lot out of that corner, and in German circles I mostly saw von Leitner's name mentioned when it came to some digital rights thing (our various German and EU "privacy" laws).



> I don't regard "fanboy" as a derogatory term, by the way.

I do. Whenever I read "fanboy", I assume the author is at least no fan of the subject (in this case I assume you don't like DJB). Otherwise it would just be a "fan"... ?




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