Talk:Jamie Zawinski

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Contents 1 Girlfriend? 2 College 3 In his debt 4 Merge 5 Linux quote 6 Add that his homepage is cool 7 Now You Have Two Problems

[edit] Girlfriend?

does he have a girlfriend / wife? I want to know because it seems like a lot of these rich successful guys in silicon valley don't.

He runs a night club, of course he does.

He is gay. He has a long time boyfriend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.32.95.54 (talk) 00:29, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Not every male living in SF is automatically gay. His long time girlfriend is http://www.argoodman.com/me.html . This link is from zawinski's website http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/ .

[edit] College

where did he go to college? CMU?

According to Peter Norvig's essay "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years", he only has a high school degree.

[edit] In his debt

Jamie is a outstanding programmer. We are all in debt of his work, at least in pushing Netscape to "open" his browser. Yes, Netscape did it too late, but did it because of at least jwz. What about current Internet if it was dominated only by Microsoft Internet Explorer ? --Nbrouard 10:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

No-brainer. It's a one-line stub. Chris Cunningham 13:24, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linux quote

do you, wikipedia community, consider ok to add here another quote attributed to Zawinski: "Linux is only free if your time is worthless" ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.78.82.95 (talk • contribs) 10:46, 10 August 2007

[edit] Add that his homepage is cool

Do add a note that his homepage is a work of art: a hex dump theme. I tried but

(Reverted good faith edits by Jidanni; Perhaps, but we aren't supposed to be passing judgement. using TW) (undo)

Jidanni 16:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Please see WP:NPOV and WP:NOR -- those core policies require that if we make a value statement, we have to have a reliable source to back it up. Wikipedia is WP:NOT a publisher of original thought. Can you find a review of his web site published in a reliable source? ←Ben^B4 17:23, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Maybe http://www.google.com/search?q=jwz.com+website+awards OK I give up. You win. Bye. Jidanni 04:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

It's not a case of "winning". The proposed text is obviously completely inappropriate. And come on, is it really of any importance whatsoever that the design of his website's index page is novel? Pure trivia. Chris Cunningham 07:43, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't say that the design of his webpage is trivial, Jamie is aware of what the design of the web page means, as a tribute to his former life as a programmer. Other webpages on his webspace are similarly meaningful (for instance, the post-modern collage style of his page on DadaDodo). While a mention of this might be appropriate, I agree that it isn't necessary, and how it was earlier mentioned was a trivia-esque. Smmurphy^(Talk) 15:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Now You Have Two Problems

Jeffrey Friedl, author of Mastering Regular Expressions, did some digging on this quote. His finding are located in his blog [1]. Among his commentors was Jamie saying he, indeed, repurposed the quote. Is this relevant? 212.235.15.70 (talk) 21:13, 24 February 2008 (UTC)