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Eric Raymond: Microsoft Could Have Killed Linux
News Microsoft could have killed off the open-source movement if it had tried in 1998, according to Open Source Initiative co-founder Eric Raymond. The company has backed off from such public posturing since then, but Raymond said that if Microsoft had...
[March 27, 2002, 17:10]
Anger As Eric Raymond Drops Red Hat
News Using a popular Linux mailing list, Eric Raymond rubbished Red Hat's free distribution, Fedora, and issued a series of allegations. Replying to Raymond's message, Cox wrote: "Eric, I think you lost the plot.
[February 26, 2007, 9:13]
Eric Raymond: How I'll Spend My Millions
News On Friday, Eric Raymond, open-source advocate, member of the VA Linux Systems board -- and newly minted millionaire -- answered that question. What does Raymond plan to do with his newfound wealth? Like many instant millionaires before him, Raymond...
[December 13, 1999, 10:32]
Eric Raymond, Reluctant Star, May Visit London
News Raymond, who once organised a meeting for Linux technical enthusiasts at a firing range with the title: "Geeks with guns" said that all that remains is for someone to invite him over. Raymond seemed slightly perplexed by the growing celebrity...
[February 4, 2000, 10:51]
The Challenges Facing Software Development
News Eric Raymond: Why open source will rule Eric Raymond: Proprietary software is doomed Fri 29 March: Linux and the open-source movement have come a long way since the foundation of the Open Source Initiative in the late 1990s, Raymond says.
[April 4, 2002, 15:37]
SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds
News SCO also tried to silence Eben Moglen, a Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants.
[April 30, 2007, 14:38]
Microsoft Email 'misunderstood' - SCO
News Eric Raymond, an open-source software and Linux luminary, added his comments to the memo: "This is the smoking gun. Contrary to the speculation of Eric Raymond, Microsoft did not orchestrate or participate in the BayStar transaction.
[March 5, 2004, 7:55]
The Year Of The Penguin
News Eric Raymond: 'What I intend to do with my millions' The year finished off appropriately enough with Eric Raymond discussing exactly what he intends to do with the millions of dollars he has made spearheading the development of the open-source...
[December 25, 1999, 6:00]
OSI President Steps Aside
News The Open Source Initiative says that it has reorganised in an effort to bring more structure to the open source software movement and that co-founder Eric Raymond is stepping down from his position as president.
[February 2, 2005, 12:55]
Canonical Releases Distributed VCS
News The software, whose name recalls Eric Raymond's open-source manifesto The Cathedral and the Bazaar, is well suited for open-source projects — which are typically distributed — as well as for private projects where teams are dispersed, Canonical said.
[December 17, 2007, 16:17]
Open-source Leaders: 'We Are Accountable'
News Open-source software leaders Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens have fired back at the SCO Group, disputing the company's latest swipe at Linux and the open-source development method. In an open letter posted late on Tuesday on Raymond's Web site, the...
[September 11, 2003, 11:30]
The Essence Of A Geek
Talkback You are of course quite right in pointing out that it was in fact Eric Raymond who wrote The Cathedral and the Bazaar. We have corrected that very embarrassing error accordingly, with apologies to Eric.
[January 18, 2006, 9:15]
The Essence Of A Geek
Talkback It was Eric S Raymond, not Eric Reynolds who writes Cathedral and the Bazaar. Aside from that, I admit with pride that I am a female geek. Its the easiest way to try to describe what I do for a living to my friends and family who are not as...
[January 17, 2006, 20:17]
A Year Ago: Open-source Guru Converting MS?
News Open-source guru Eric Raymond is heading to Microsoft's Redmond campus Monday, hoping to convince the software giant to change its proprietary ways. Raymond, who's been known to don an Obi-Wan costume during public events, said a Microsoft research...
[June 20, 2000, 7:05]
The Essence Of A Geek
Talkback Raymond's eric reynolds? Maybe you mean Eric S.
[January 17, 2006, 21:04]
Top Ten Stories Of The Year
News Admired and vilified in almost equal measure by the open source community, The Cathedral and the Bazaar author Eric Raymond always draws a crowd, and his pontification on the pending downfall of Microsoft lived up to expectations.
[December 27, 2002, 6:10]
'Halloween' - Was It Faked?
News All this sounds plausible in theory, says open source evangelist Eric Raymond, the self-proclaimed "hacker/anarchist" who obtained Halloween I and II and posted them, but it couldn't be further from the truth, he says.
[November 9, 1998, 9:46]
Hackers Take SCO Web Site Offline
News However, unofficial open-source spokesman Eric Raymond suggested in a posting on Sunday to open-source news Web site NewsForge that the attack was launched by someone angry at comments from SCO executives criticising the open-source community's...
[August 26, 2003, 8:55]
Corel Linux: Out Of The Chute With A Bang
News Or, as Eric Raymond, president of the Open Source Initiative, says, you could see it as a bureaucracy blunder resulting from an attempt to put an old boilerplate on a new open source project. Raymond says that Corel's open source license...
[September 22, 1999, 12:11]
Free Software Advocates Go To War With Microsoft
News Self-styled open source evangelist Eric Raymond was the first to respond to Microsoft's challenge in an article published in LinuxToday. According to Raymond, Microsoft's keenness to rubbish open source is in fact evidence that the software company...
[May 3, 2001, 12:54]
