Eric S. Raymond
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American computer programmer, author, and advocate for the open source movement
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Why Is Eric S. Raymond Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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.
Eric S. Raymond's Published Works
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Published Works
- The cathedral and the bazaar - musings on Linux and Open Source by an accidental revolutionary (2001) (2524)
- The cathedral and the bazaar (1998) (1036)
- The Art of Unix Programming (2003) (367)
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar (1999) (355)
- Homesteading the Noosphere (1998) (328)
- The New Hacker's Dictionary (1991) (263)
- The magic Cauldron (1999) (151)
- A Brief History of Hackerdom (2004) (92)
- A Brief History of Hackerdom (2004) (92)
- The cathedral and the bazaar - musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revoltionary (rev. ed.) (2001) (91)
- The New Hacker's Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1993) (68)
- How To Become A Hacker (2008) (57)
- How To Become A Hacker (2008) (57)
- Linux and Open - Source Success (1999) (33)
- Learning GNU Emacs (1991) (28)
- Pandemic Influenza Planning: An Extraordinary Ethical Dilemma for Local Government Officials (2009) (27)
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (2015) (18)
- Up from alchemy [open source development] (2004) (10)
- A Response to Nikolai Bezroukov (1999) (9)
- A Tale of Two Cities: An Exploratory Study of Consolidation and Annexation Policies in the Cities of Memphis and Nashville (2011) (9)
- Why Microsoft smears-and fears-open source (2001) (8)
- The hacker's dictionary (1991) (6)
- Etymology of "Foo" (2001) (6)
- Learning GNU Emacs (2nd ed.) (1996) (4)
- World Domination (2000) (3)
- Book Review: The Essential Perl Books (1998) (2)
- Understanding Open Source Software Development (2001) (2)
- Back to the User (2001) (2)
- Towards 4G: From Cathedral to Bazaar (2009) (1)
- Introduction To Linux (2000) (1)
- What Makes Open Source Work? The Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches . . . out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles. (2007) (1)
- Learning gnu emacs, third edition (2004) (1)
- Comment devenir un hacker (2000) (1)
- Ntpsec: a secure, hardened NTP implementation (2016) (1)
- Stop the Presses: Open Source Summit (1998) (1)
- Linux Programming White Papers (1999) (1)
- Learning GNU Emacs - a guide to the world's most extensible customizable editor (3. ed.) (2005) (0)
- Book Review: HTML: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition (1998) (0)
- Linux Expo a Smashing Success!: Read all about it... (1998) (0)
- Learning GNU emacs - Unix text processing (2. ed.) (1996) (0)
- Automated Visual Event Detection, Tracking, and Data Management System for Cabled- Observatory Video (2008) (0)
- The ultimate Linux box 2001: how to design your dream machine (2002) (0)
- In the Meantime: Mass Transit in the Transition to a Sustainable Energy Economy (2009) (0)
- Beware the Microsoft shell game (2001) (0)
- Point/Counterpoint (2004) (0)
- Linux System Administration White Papers (1999) (0)
- Building the Perfect Box (1997) (0)
- Reply-To Personal Proposal (1997) (0)
- Building the ultimate Linux box (2001) (0)
- The Varieties of Hacker Ideology (1998) (0)
- Historical Perspective and Further Reading Accumulator Architectures (0)
- From the Editor: Open Source's First Six Months (1998) (0)
- Human Motives , Incentives and Non-market Mechanisms of Research Allocation (2004) (0)
- System Evaluation and Assurance 26.1 Introduction (2008) (0)
- Helping Netscape Make History (1998) (0)
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