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Birth
Eric Steven Raymond was born on December 4, 1957 in Boston Massachusetts. -
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Eric S. Raymond's life
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Moved to Pennsylvania
Eric and his family moved to Pennsylvania, USA -
Wharton School Computer Center
Eric has done consulting and devellopment work in APL, Pascal, and LISP. -
Burroughs Federal and Special Systems Group
Eric worked as software engineering for about a year. He worked on research for advanced programming and artificial intelligence. -
MicroCorp
Eric was a lead programmer for MicroCorp where he designed products for various micros. -
Rabbit software
Eric worked to help a team of 7 code upwards of 3270 emulation projects. Eric developed many things throughout this time. One of which was developing multiple-task windowing packages. -
Eric becomes the maintainer o the "Jargon File"
A File that cover the jargon within hacking culture. -
First encounter with Linux
Eric had his first encounter with linux by the pioneering Yggdrasil CD-ROM distribution. -
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Wrote the essay that would eventually lead to the book -
Open Source Initiative
Eric co-founded and served as president until 2005 of the Open Source Initiative, This initiative promotes the open-source development method for business.
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VA Linux Systems
Eric became a member of the board of directors of va linux systems. -
Published "The Catherdral and the Bazaar"
A book Eric wrote which explores his observations managing an open source project -
Linux Documentation Project
Eric helped contribute "howto's" that are still included in the linux Documentation Project -
The Art of Unix Programming
Eric wrote The Art of Unix Programming which discusses user tools for programming -
Admin of project for GPS data tool
Currently, Eric is working as an administrator. "The GPSD is a service daemon that handles GPSes and other navigation-related sensors"
