Eric S. Raymond Quotes


On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.


Citations

Raymond, Eric S. "The Halloween Documents." catb.org, 1998.

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Eric S. Raymond
Eric S. Raymond
  • Born: December 4, 1957
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Software Developer, Author

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, currently in print as The New Hacker's Dictionary.