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How the software economy is driven by proprietary work

...on open-source analogies resulted in a rather interesting email exchange with Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman. As should be apparent to readers of ZDNet... Read more

17 May, 2004 by John Carroll

Eric Raymond: Microsoft doomed by cheap PCs

...s software monopoly is running out of time, says open-source guru Eric Raymond, and he's got a precise figure for when the company... Read more

27 February, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Canonical releases distributed VCS

...the need for a central code repository. The software, whose name recalls Eric Raymond's open-source manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar, is well... Read more

17 December, 2007 by Matthew Broersma

Anger as Eric Raymond drops Red Hat

...week, sparking a storm of anger. Using a popular Linux mailing list, Eric Raymond rubbished Red Hat's free distribution, Fedora, and issued a series... Read more

26 February, 2007 by Richard Thurston

OSI president steps aside

...more structure to the open source software movement and that co-founder Eric Raymond is stepping down from his position as president. Raymond, one of... Read more

2 February, 2005 by Martin LaMonica

Open source: Supply and demand

...The Magic Cauldron," the seminal work on open-source economics written by Eric Raymond. This instalment discusses some of Raymond's proposals relating to the... Read more

11 June, 2004 by John Carroll

Open source flexes its muscle at OSCON

...is testimony to the maturity of an ideology well beyond trend status. Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, was comparing open source to... Read more

14 July, 2003 by David Berlind

Open source: How it could serve you better

...a lot of talk about how Netscape officials had been influenced by Eric Raymond's essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which argues the merits... Read more

22 April, 2002 by Larry Seltzer

The challenges facing software development

Eric Raymond: Why open source will ruleFri 29 March: Linux and the open... Read more

4 April, 2002 by ZDNet UK

Eric Raymond: Why open source will rule

Eric Raymond believes Linux is on a roll. Raymond is best known as... Read more

28 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Eric Raymond: Microsoft could have killed Linux

...it had tried in 1998, according to Open Source Initiative co-founder Eric Raymond. Last year Microsoft launched a virulent attack on the open-source... Read more

27 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Open-source guru finds Mac OS X too restrictive

...OS X, but it doesn't have all open-source gurus convinced. Eric Raymond, the co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, told ZDNet UK... Read more

26 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Eric Raymond, reluctant star, may visit London

Open-source evangelist and gun enthusiast Eric Raymond told ZDNet UK this week that he could make an appearance... Read more

4 February, 2000 by Will Knight

Eric Raymond: How I'll spend my millions

...What would you do if you had a million dollars?" On Friday, Eric Raymond, open-source advocate, member of the VA Linux Systems board -- and... Read more

13 December, 1999 by Steven J.Vaughan Nichols

Raymond attacks Microsoft over OOXML fiasco

Eric Raymond has warned that the Microsoft Permissive License may be refused OSI... Read more

3 September, 2007 by Tom Espiner

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