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Rootless Root
Eric Steven Raymond
Thyrsus Enterprises
<esr@thyrsus.com>
Copyright © 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Revision History Revision 1.8 2016-04-17 esr Removed "Master Foo and the Editor Wars", as itb turned out not to be original. Revision 1.8 2016-01-05 esr Add "Master Foo and Recruiter", channelled by Paul Parks. Revision 1.7 2015-07-24 esr Add "Master Foo and the Editor Wars". From a somewhat garbled koan recovered by Steven Vaughan-Nichols and posted to G+. Revision 1.6 2014-08-26 esr Add "Master Foo and the Hardware Designer". From an idea by Bob "The Grumpy Programmer" Pendleton. Revision 1.5 2013-07-14 esr Add "Master Foo and the Programming Prodigy". From an idea by Patrick Verhagen. Revision 1.4 2008-01-12 esr Add "Master Foo and the Nervous Novice". Original by Feba Thatl, editing and adaptation by ESR. Revision 1.3 2007-12-29 esr Add "Master Foo and the Shell Tools", "Master Foo and the Old Hand", "Master Foo Discourses on Returning to Windows", and "Master Foo and the MCSE". Originals by Christoph Moder, editing and adaptation by ESR. Revision 1.2 2003-04-17 esr Add "Master Foo discourses on the Unix Nature" and "Master Foo and the Unix Zealot." Revision 1.1 2003-04-15 esr Add "Master Foo discourses on the Graphical User Interface" and "Master Foo and the Methodologist." Revision 1.0 2003-04-11 esr Initial version; four koans.
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Table of Contents
Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines
Master Foo and the Script Kiddie
Master Foo Discourses on the Two Paths
Master Foo and the Methodologist
Master Foo Discourses on the Graphical User Interface
Master Foo and the Shell Tools
Master Foo and the Nervous Novice
Master Foo Discourses on Returning to Windows
Master Foo and the Unix Zealot
Master Foo Discourses on the Unix-Nature