While I appreciate the direct link that bypasses the email form, here&#x27;s the page describing the report and its author:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oreilly.com&#x2F;programming&#x2F;free&#x2F;why-rust.csp" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oreilly.com&#x2F;programming&#x2F;free&#x2F;why-rust.csp</a><p>&quot;One of the original designers of the Subversion version control system, [Jim Blandy is] a committer to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, and has been a maintainer of GNU Emacs, GNU Guile, and GDB.&quot;