“Basic Hacking Skills: Learn how to program”
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Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
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culture · US programmer, author, and open-source advocate · programmer · writer · journalist · anthropologist · hacker · computer scientist · also Eric S. Raymond, Eric Raymond, Eric Steven Raymond, ESR, Raymond
Born 4 December 1957 · Q188954
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2026· 2 entries
“Noospheric Property and the Ethology of Territory”
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2015· 1 entry
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 'w
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1998· 4 entries
Cited The Cathedral and the Bazaar as "independent validation" of ideas proposed by Eric Hahn and Jamie Zawinski
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Taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public
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Raymond received and published a Microsoft document expressing worry about the quality of rival open-source software
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“Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style”
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1997· 1 entry
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 (the "bazaar" approach)
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1996· 1 entry
Raymond took over development of the open-source email software "popclient", renaming it to Fetchmail
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1990· 1 entry
Noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983, he adopted it, but not without criticism; Paul Dourish maintains an archived original version of the Jargon File, because, he says, Raymond's updates
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-12-04.
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