Author

Books by Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond is an American programmer, author, and open source advocate. He was a central figure in the open source movement of the late 1990s and helped draft the Open Source Definition. His other books include The Art of Unix Programming, a detailed guide to Unix programming philosophy. He maintains several open source projects and writes on technology culture and software engineering at his personal site, catb.org. The Cathedral and the Bazaar was first presented as a talk in 1997 and published as an essay before being expanded into a book by O'Reilly in 1999.