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.
winning select free-market
Free markets select for winning solutions.
firsts computer speed
The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.
iphone shapes trouble
The iPhone brand is in worse shape than I thought was even possible. And the implications of that are huge. ... The iPhone is in deep trouble.
class world sun
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
information firsts looks
On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.
dog cousin animal
Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.
language implementation
and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++).
fun mad people
We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.
special asking agents
And for any agents or proxy of the regime interested in asking me questions face to face, I've got some bullets slathered in pork fat to make you feel extra special welcome.
senior today linux
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
responsibility gun want
When I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun.
stupid independent skin-color
That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.
good-work very-good software
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.