Here are a few earlier discussions of this email:
Curse Of The Gifted (2000) 606 points
luu 2 years ago 365 comments Eric S. Raymond - The Curse of the Gifted (2000) 243 points
vinutheraj 6 years ago 59 comments The curse of the gifted programmer (ESR's email to Torvalds) 95 points
semmons 6 years ago 38 comments It's interesting to compare the quality of discussion over the years. In this case, I think the more recent ones come out looking pretty good.