Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond is the author of "[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]?" and the present maintainer of "Jargon File" (better known as "The Hacker's Dictionary"). He is a leading character in the open source movement.

He has also been much involved in the rec.humor.funny? newsgroup and was the creator of the C implementation of the INTERCAL? programming language.

Raymond coined the sentence, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." He credits Linus Torvalds with the inspiration for this quotation, which he dubs "[Linus' Law]?". The "mainstream" source for the quotation is his 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, Sebastopol, California: O'Reilly & Associates; but [1] archives the earliest source (1997), originally distributed freely on the Internet.

Links

• [Raymond's home page]
• "[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]"
• [Jargon File]