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New England
Chapter of the American Society for
Information
Science
N E A S I S Symposium: 6 December 1999 Open Source and Free Systems/Software: About Eric Raymond
"The
Cathedral and the Bazaar"
"A Brief History of Hackerdom" and "The Revenge of the Hackers", Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, Edited by Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman & Mark Stone, January 1999. Eric S. Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. His own software projects include one of the Internet's most widely-used email transport programs. Mr. Raymond is also a science fiction fan, a musician, an activist for the First and Second Amendments, and a martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. His home page is at |
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