Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion,… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“An almost equally important payoff of open source is its utility as a way to propagate open standards and build markets around… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Anyway, in a world of cheap PCs and fast Internet links, we find pretty consistently that the only really limiting resource is… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“We’re proving not only that we can do better software, but that joy is an asset.” — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“If (as is generally accepted) over 75% of a typical software project’s life-cycle costs will be in maintenance and debugging and extensions, then the… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize utility which… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“The reason this is a serious issue is that both the pool of users and the pool of talent available to be recruited into… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
