Regardless of any reason, I think our translation projects are much more important than this. If you really want to help, let's get OpenOffice.org done :-)
I have the same thoughts. Eric Raymond is a big wanna be hacker, I agree that he is probably a business man, not a hacker. Him and that page to me symbolises the arrogant stupid attitude of wannabe hackers towards newbies.
I don't like it.