Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar and other works, and open-source software advocate. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as the The New Hacker's Dictionary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 December 1957
CountryUnited States of America
internet defeat free-speech
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
pain writing data
When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!
communication development coercion
Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.
hands lasts program
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
microsoft problem symptoms
Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.
machines faces different
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
eye bugs enough
With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.
interesting problem programming
To solve an interesting problem, start by finding a problem that is interesting to you.
good-work very-good software
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
giving able ethics
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.
real writing world
Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world
delusion software persistent
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
stupid independent thinking
In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
layers alternatives language
Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C