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Eric Steven Raymond: Hacker and Open Source Advocate |
 Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he settled in Pennsylvania in 1971. His main contributions as a developer are the maintenance of the fetchmail client and gpsd. He also contributed to GNU ncurses and Emacs editing modes. He was reputed as the maintainer of the "Jargon File", a glossary for hacker slang. After the publication of "The Cathedral and the Bazzard" in 1997, he became one of the most recognized and controversial characters in open source movements. He is well known for the aphorism "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", which he coins as Linus's law. His fame is shadowed by racist and discriminatory comments against afro-americans and muslims.
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