Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond ( born December 4, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts), also known as ESR, is an American author and software developer in the hacker and open source scene.

Life

He is responsible for many FAQs and how-tos, leads about 30 open source projects, written books and is a blogger. He developed the C- implementation of the INTERCAL programming, supervised time as the mail transport program Fetchmail, participated in the GNU ncurses library with and has a configuration tool called CML2 written for the Linux kernel, which due to an unfavorable response from the kernel hackers no success was granted. He is co-founder of the Open Source Initiative ( OSI).

Raymond wrote, among other things, the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar ( 1997) ( The Cathedral and the Bazaar), the book of the same name, as well as the essays Homesteading the Noosphere (about: Occupation of the noosphere ), The Magic Cauldron ( The Magic Cauldron ) and Revenge of the hackers ( revenge of the hackers), manages the online version of the New hacker's Dictionary ( jargon File ) and transferred the parable dwarfs on the shoulders of giants to the hacker culture. A stir he caused with the release of internal Microsoft documents (Halloween documents) and so stoked the public contest between the operating systems Windows, and Linux continues.

Since the late 1990s, Raymond became one of the most famous and controversial figures in the open source movement. He is committed to the ideals of libertarianism and is a strong advocate of the right to bear arms. It supports the Libertarian Party.

Eric Raymond has made ​​some appearances in the Revolution OS Linux documentation.