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Eric S. Raymond

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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. 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.

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Eric S. Raymond's Blog

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Beginning of the end for the patent wars?

It’s all over the net today. As I repeatedly predicted, the patent claims in the Oracle-vs.-Java lawsuit over Android have completely fizzled. Oracle’s only shred of hope at this point is that Judge Alsup will rule that APIs can be copyrighted, and given the extent of cluefulness Alsup has displayed (he mentioned in court having done some programming himself) this seems rather unlikely.

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Books by Eric S. Raymond

Average rating: 3.86 · 903 ratings · 72 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond, Bob Young (Foreword by) 3.82 avg rating — 602 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Art of Unix Programming 4.08 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The New Hacker's Dictionary 4.06 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Jargon File Version 4.2.2 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Linux Undercover: Linux Secrets As Revealed By The Linux Documentation Project 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	My rating:
	Learning GNU Emacs by Debra Cameron, Marc Loy, James Elliott 3.56 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Introduction to Linux: A Collection of Linux HOWTOs by Michael K. Johnson, Eric S. Raymond 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Understanding Open Source Software Development by Joseph Feller, Eric S. Raymond 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating: