The Spreading Grass-Roots Threat to Microsoft (1998)

an interesting fact into how I ran into this is that this article is the first link in Guido Van Rossum's homepage [0] where he quotes "gawky and proud of it". Indeed Guido makes a quick appearance in the article and is indeed described as such. I had to look it up: gawky means tall and awkard.

[0]: https://gvanrossum.github.io

An article about Open Source and Eric Raymond that is a fascinating read after so many years and given how things have changed

I know it's not the same, but it makes me think of risc v