Eric S. Raymond




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Eric S. Raymond

Eric S Raymond portrait.jpg
Raymond at Linucon 2004

Born
(1957-12-04) December 4, 1957 (age 61)
Boston, Massachusetts
Residence Pennsylvania
Nationality American
Alma mater
University of Pennsylvania (dropped out)[1]
Occupation
Software developer, author
Website www.catb.org/esr/

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, author of the widely cited[2] 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.[3] In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as The New Hacker's Dictionary.[4]




Contents






  • 1 Early life


  • 2 Career


  • 3 Views on open source


  • 4 Political beliefs and activism


  • 5 Personal life


  • 6 Bibliography


    • 6.1 By Eric Raymond


      • 6.1.1 Books


      • 6.1.2 Writings posted or archived on his website






  • 7 See also


  • 8 References


  • 9 Further reading


  • 10 External links





Early life


Raymond was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1957 and lived in Venezuela as a child. His family moved to Pennsylvania in 1971.[5] He has suffered from cerebral palsy since birth; his weakened physical condition motivated him to go into computing.[6]



Career


Raymond began his programming career writing proprietary software, between 1980 and 1985.[1] In 1990, noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983, he adopted it; he currently has a third edition in print. Paul Dourish maintains an archived original version of the Jargon File, because, he says, Raymond's updates "essentially destroyed what held it together."[7]


In 1996 Raymond took over development of the open-source email software "popclient", renaming it to Fetchmail.[8] Soon after this experience, in 1997, he wrote the essay "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", detailing his thoughts on open-source software development and why it should be done as openly as possible (i.e., the "bazaar" approach). The essay was based in part on his experience in developing Fetchmail. He first presented his thesis at the annual Linux Kongress on May 27, 1997. He later expanded the essay into a book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, in 1999. The internal white paper by Frank Hecker that led to the release of the Mozilla (then Netscape) source code in 1998 cited The Cathedral and the Bazaar as "independent validation" of ideas proposed by Eric Hahn and Jamie Zawinski.[9] Hahn would later describe the 1999 book as "clearly influential".[10]:190


From the late 1990s onward, due in part to the popularity of his essay, Raymond became a prominent voice in the open source movement. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public. He remains active in OSI, and stepped down as president of the initiative in February 2005.[11] In 1998 Raymond received and published a Microsoft document expressing worry about the quality of rival open-source software.[12] Eric named this document, together with others subsequently leaked, "the Halloween Documents".


In 2000–2002 he created CML2, a source code configuration system; while originally intended for the Linux operating system, it was rejected by kernel developers.[13] Raymond attributed this rejection to "kernel list politics".[14]Linus Torvalds on the other hand said in a 2007 mailing list post that as a matter of policy, the development team preferred more incremental changes. His 2003 book The Art of Unix Programming discusses user tools for programming and other tasks.


Raymond is currently the administrator of the project page for the GPS data tool gpsd.[15] Also, some versions of NetHack include his guide.[3] He has also contributed code and content to the free software video game The Battle for Wesnoth.[16]



Views on open source


Raymond coined an aphorism he dubbed "Linus's Law", inspired by Linus Torvalds: "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".[17] It first appeared in his book The Cathedral and the Bazaar.[18]:30


Raymond has refused to speculate on whether the "bazaar" development model could be applied to works such as books and music, not wanting to "weaken the winning argument for open-sourcing software by tying it to a potential loser".[19]


Raymond has had a number of public disputes with other figures in the free software movement. As head of the Open Source Initiative, he argued that advocates should focus on the potential for better products. The "very seductive" moral and ethical rhetoric of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation fails, he said, "not because his principles are wrong, but because that kind of language ... simply does not persuade anybody".[20]


In a 2008 essay he "defended the right of programmers to issue work under proprietary licenses because I think that if a programmer wants to write a program and sell it, it's neither my business nor anyone else's but his customer's what the terms of sale are".[21] In the same essay he also said that the "logic of the system" puts developers into "dysfunctional roles", with bad code the result.



Political beliefs and activism


Raymond is a member of the Libertarian Party. He is a gun rights advocate.[22] He has endorsed the open source firearms organization Defense Distributed, calling them "friends of freedom" and writing "I approve of any development that makes it more difficult for governments and criminals to monopolize the use of force. As 3D printers become less expensive and more ubiquitous, this could be a major step in the right direction."[23][24]


In 2015 Raymond accused the Ada Initiative and other women in tech groups of attempting to entrap male open source leaders and accuse them of rape, saying "Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a 'women in tech' advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp."[25][26]


Raymond is also known for claiming that “Gays experimented with unfettered promiscuity in the 1970s and got AIDS as a consequence” and that “Police who react to a random black male behaving suspiciously who might be in the critical age range as though he is an near-imminent lethal threat, are being rational, not racist.”[27][28] Progressive campaign The Great Slate was successful in raising funds for candidates in part by asking for contributions from tech workers in return for not posting similar quotes by Raymond. Matasano Security employee and Great Slate fundraiser Thomas Ptacek said, “I’ve been torturing Twitter with lurid Eric S. Raymond quotes for years. Every time I do, 20 people beg me to stop.” It is estimated that as of March 2018 over $30,000 has been raised in this way.[29]



Personal life


Raymond describes himself as neo-pagan.[6]



Bibliography



  • Hamerly, Jim, Paquin, Tom and Walton, Susan; Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla, in Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, O'Reilly, 1999. 280pp, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 1-56592-582-3

  • Wayner, Peter; Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans, HarperCollins, 2000, 340pp,
    ISBN 0-06-662050-3

  • Suarez-Potts, Louis; Interview: Frank Hecker, Community Articles, May 1, 2001, www.openoffice.org, OpenOffice website

  • Moody, Glyn; Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Basic Books 2002, 342pp,
    ISBN 978-0-7382-0333-1



By Eric Raymond



Books




  • The New Hacker's Dictionary (editor) (MIT Press
    ISBN 0-262-68092-0) — printed version of the Jargon File with Raymond listed as the editor.


  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar (O'Reilly; hardcover
    ISBN 1-56592-724-9, October 1999) — includes "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", "Homesteading the Noosphere", "The Magic Cauldron" and "Revenge of the Hackers"


  • The Art of Unix Programming (Addison-Wesley, October 2003;
    ISBN 0-13-142901-9)


  • Learning GNU Emacs, 3rd Edition Cameron, Debra; Elliott, James; Loy, Marc; Raymond, Eric; Rosenblatt, Bill (O'Reilly Media, December 2004;
    ISBN 978-0-596-00648-8)



Writings posted or archived on his website




  • The Art of Unix Usability, the book about programming and user interface philosophy in UNIX


  • How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, mirrored on personal site


  • Release Early, Release Often, excerpt from The Cathedral and the Bazaar, mirrored on personal site


  • Eric Raymond's FAQ collection, mirrored on his personal site. Includes links to Linux Documentation Project.



See also





  • Revolution OS (film)

  • Hacker ethic

  • Halloween documents

  • Release early, release often



References





  1. ^ ab Raymond, Eric S. (January 29, 2003). "Resume of Eric Steven Raymond". Retrieved November 23, 2009.


  2. ^ "Citations for "The Cathedral And The Bazaar"". ACM Digital Library. Retrieved 10 February 2015.


  3. ^ ab Raymond, Eric S. (December 8, 2003). "A Guide to the Mazes of Menace (Guidebook of Nethack)". NetHack.org. Retrieved December 15, 2008.


  4. ^ Raymond, Eric S. (October 11, 1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary. ISBN 0-262-68092-0.


  5. ^ "Man Against the FUD". Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved July 7, 2008.


  6. ^ ab Leonard, Andrew (April 1998). "Let my software go!". Salon.com. San Francisco: Salon Media Group. Retrieved November 23, 2009.


  7. ^ "The Original Hacker's Dictionary". dourish.com. Retrieved November 5, 2011.


  8. ^ "Fetchmail".


  9. ^ Suarez-Potts, Louis (2001). "Interview: Frank Hecker". Retrieved November 5, 2011.


  10. ^ Moody, Glyn (2002-07-25). Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution. Basic Books. ISBN 0-7382-0670-9.


  11. ^ Raymond, Eric S. (January 31, 2005). "Open Source Initiative (OSI) Announces expanded programs, counsel, AND board". Retrieved January 14, 2010.


  12. ^ Harmon, Amy (November 3, 1998). "Internal Memo Shows Microsoft Executives' Concern Over Free Software". The New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2011.


  13. ^ "CML2, ESR, & The LKML". KernelTrap. February 17, 2002. Archived from the original on August 7, 2007.


  14. ^ McMillan, Rob. "Interview: Eric Raymond goes back to basics". IBM developerWorks.


  15. ^ "GPSD – Summary". savannah.nongnu.org. Retrieved October 30, 2011.


  16. ^ "People at Gna!: Eric S. Raymond Profile". Gna.org. Archived from the original on March 1, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2017.


  17. ^ Greenstein, Shane (January 2012). "The Range of Linus' Law". IEEE Micro (Volume 32, Issue 1). IEEE Computer Society.


  18. ^ Raymond, Eric S. (1999). The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 1-56592-724-9.


  19. ^ Raymond, Eric S. (2000). "Afterword: Beyond Software?". Retrieved July 24, 2007.


  20. ^ Raymond, Eric S. (July 28, 1999). "Shut Up And Show Them The Code". Linux Today. Retrieved July 5, 2017.


  21. ^ Raymond, Eric S. (October 1, 2008). "Why I Hate Proprietary Software". Retrieved November 5, 2011.


  22. ^ Richard Stallman, Free Software, and Copyleft 2011


  23. ^ Raymond, Eric (August 23, 2012). "Defense Distributed". Armed and Dangerous. Retrieved January 14, 2013.


  24. ^ Kopfstein, Janus (April 12, 2013). "Guns want to be free: what happens when 3D printing and crypto-anarchy collide?". The Verge.


  25. ^ "Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond". Retrieved 2017-11-25.


  26. ^ "Is This Crazy Anti-Feminist Rumor the Platonic Ideal of the Men's-Rights Internet?". Select All. Retrieved 2017-11-25.


  27. ^ Raymond, Eric (2002-06-16). "The Elephant in the Bath-House". Retrieved 2018-08-27.


  28. ^ Raymond, Eric (2016-09-24). "Dilemmatizing the NRA". Retrieved 2018-08-27.


  29. ^ Jeong, Sarah (2018-03-08). "Meet the campaign connecting affluent techies with progressive candidates around the country". The Verge. Retrieved 2018-03-08.




Further reading


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  • Byfield, Bruce (December 22, 2015). "The Decline and Fall of Eric S. Raymond". Linux Magazine. Retrieved July 15, 2018.



External links











  • Official website

  • Blog ("Armed and Dangerous")


  • Works by Eric S. Raymond at Project Gutenberg


  • Works by or about Eric S. Raymond at Internet Archive


  • Eric S. Raymond on IMDb










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