Talk:Philip Greenspun

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[edit] Notoriety

We read "He gained early notoriety as an outspoken Internet programmer and travel photographer." I'm puzzled: fame, maybe, but why the notoriety? Hoary 04:01, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, I'm not going to defend the original statement, but I guess the notoriety arose from him leaving ArsDigita and then suing the VCs and settling for quite a substantial sum of money (in excess of $5m if IIRC). Since then he and collaborator Eve Anderson have written numerous articles on how the VCs were clueless and drove AD into the ground (or at least to be acquired by Red Hat who were backed by the same VCs) Richard W.M. Jones 15:15, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)