Eric S. Raymond

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Eric S. Raymond (October 2004)

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

Life

Raymond is responsible for many FAQs and Howtos , leads about 30 open source projects, writes books and is a blogger . He developed the C implementation of the INTERCAL programming language, temporarily looked after the mail transport program Fetchmail , worked on the GNU library ncurses and wrote a configuration tool called CML2 for the Linux kernel, which was unsuccessful due to negative feedback from the kernel hackers was granted. He is a 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 hacker ( revenge of the hackers ), manages the online version of the New hacker's Dictionary ( jargon File ) and transferred the parable Standing on the shoulders of giants to the hacker culture . He caused a stir with the publication of internal Microsoft papers ( Halloween documents ) and thus further fueled the public competition between the Windows and Linux operating systems .

Since the late 1990s, Raymond has become 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 gun ownership . He supports the Libertarian Party .

Eric Raymond made several appearances in the Linux documentation Revolution OS .

See also

Publications

  • The New Hacker's Dictionary. 3rd edition. MIT Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1996, ISBN 0-262-68092-0 , website .
  • The Cathedral & the Bazaar. Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. Revised edition. O'Reilly & Associates, Beijing et al. 2001, ISBN 0-596-00108-8 .
    • Publication of the book in XML or PostScript format on his homepage (including translations)
  • The Art of UNIX Programming. Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston MA et al. 2003, ISBN 0-13-142901-9 ( Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series ), website and updated full text .

Web links

Commons : Eric S. Raymond  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Eric S. Raymond  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The enchanted cauldron. From the American by Reinhard Gantar. June 1999, archived from the original on March 15, 2016 ; accessed on June 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ http://www.catb.org/~esr/netfreedom/
personal data
SURNAME Raymond, Eric S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raymond, Eric Steven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and programmer in the hacker and open source scene
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston