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Interview with Eric S. Raymond

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 6 comments
Free Software Magazine; By Colin McGregor 		Mail this story
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Every field of knowledge has writing that defines the field. In the open source field one of the key essays is “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” by Eric Steven Raymond, or ESR as he is often known. In the essay Eric S. Raymond compares and contrasts the cathedral as a highly structured, highly organized approach of creating software against the faster adapting less structured bazaar like approach used in open source. In this interview Mr. Raymond talks about a number of the projects he is involved in.

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Comments (6)

thenixedreport ·
Why didn't the author ask for his thoughts on the Linspire/Microsoft deal?
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Why didn't the author ask more questions than the general stuff that you can get from a Wikipedia bio?
tuxchick ·
ESR usually emits torrents of verbiage effortlessly. What the heck happened here?
Steven_Rosenber ·
They interviewed him in the January Linux Journal http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9911... I couldn't make it all the way through it.

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