Eric Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born the December 4th 1957 with Boston, Massachusetts, with the the United States), also known under initial ESR , is a American Hacker famous with which one owes in particular the popularization of the term Open Source in opposition to Free Software (or free software ). He is the author of the book the cathedral and the bazaar which summarizes its points of view on this subject.
The purpose of the terminological difference between Open Source and Free Software is ideological to underline a difference in opinion with Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation. Whereas this last propose the rather ethical and philosophical merits of the free software, Eric Raymond prefers to underline, in a more pragmatic way, the quality of the Logiciel S with open source code from a purely technical point of view.
The data-processing productions of Eric Raymond are less known than those of others Hacker S famous such as Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds. One owes him in particular some contributions to Emacs and libraries Unix, then part of the updates of the customer of transport Fetchmail. He is also the author of many teachwares and published in 2003 The Art off Unix Programming .
This deficit of recognition as its sometimes extreme standpoint explain why it is often disputed in the medium of the free software. Indeed, Eric Raymond often criticized in a virulent way Free Software Foundation and the license GNU LPG. He thinks that, since the free development is more effective than the not-free development, an author who would develop a not-free code starting from a free code (name a) would be inevitably punished by the production of a code less effective than the free improvements of the free code (that one named A). The economy would do the work of the Gauche of author, without discouraging the new arrivals…
It is also of public notoriety that Eric Raymond is an enthusiastic defender of the Second Amendment of the constitution of the the United States which confers on each citizen the right to hold and to carry a Firearm. These positions in favor of the firearms and for the software " Open Source" are presented by Eric Raymond like the elements of a vaster Idéologie political called Libertarianisme, than it supports.
In 2005, it reduces its activities in the Open Source Initiative, which it founded in 1997, and joined in September 2006 the team of Freespire, a Distribution Linux derived from the operating system Linspire.
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