Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The …

Welcome to my piece of the Web. I maintain quite a lot of open-source software, FAQs, and HTML documents, so this site is rather complex. It's mostly validated HTML and light on the graphics, …

Jul 2, 2026 · As editor of The New Hacker's Dictionary and author of many FAQs and HOWTO documents, Raymond often acted as a self-described historian or ethnographer of hacker culture, …

The essay's central thesis is Raymond's proposition that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (which he terms Linus's law): the more widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, …

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A technical presentation on Windows-to-Linux end-user migration that is also a cheesy vaudeville routine -- performed at the Winter 2002 LinuxWorld with Rob Landley and Catherine Raymond.

Mar 22, 2026 · Eric S. Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that …

ERIC S. RAYMOND is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven …

Eric S. Raymond (often called ESR; born 4 December 1957) is an American writer and computer programmer. He became famous when he picked up maintenance of The Jargon File.

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957) is an American computer programmer, author, and advocate whose work has profoundly shaped the philosophy and practice of open-source software …