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b. 1957, Boston · Programmer, author, free/open-source advocate

Also known as: Raymond, Eric S. Raymond, ESR

Eric Raymond wrote The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997), an influential essay on the open development model exemplified by Linux. The essay persuaded Netscape to release its browser source code, the decision that produced Mozilla and Firefox.

He helped popularise the term open source in 1998 and co-founded the Open Source Initiative the same year.

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Related people: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman

Works cited in this book:

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (2001)

Discussed in:

Chapter 2: A History of Unix and Linux · The Cathedral and the Bazaar