Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond, programmer and author, was born in 1957 in Boston. He considers Unix — both as design and as culture — the best acomplishment in software development. He advocates for Open Source under a liberal perspective, as opposed to the moral approach of the Free Software initiative. He has developed and maintained many open source packages, including fetchmail.

Books

He has written some successfull books:

In The Art of Unix Programming he describes Unix's philosophy.

His essay The Cathedral & the Bazaar considers the Open Source model as a better alternative to conventional commercial software development. O'Reilly, 2001, 256 pages. ISBN: 978-0-596-00108-7

His lexikon The New Hacker's Dictionary describes the hacker culture. MIT Press, 1996, 547 pages. ISBN: 978-0-262-68092-9