Articles by Eric S. Raymond

Flashback to '04: "Let Java Go" – ESR Writes Open Letter to Sun

Thu, 04 May 2006 02:30:00 EDT

Responding to remarks at Sun's February 2004 analyst meeting, Eric S. Raymond - President of the Open Source Initiative - in February 2004 wrote an Open Letter to Scott McNealy. The letter ends: 'Mr. CEO, tear down that wall. You have millions of potential allies out here in the open-source community who would love to become Java developers and users if it didn't mean ceding control of their future to Sun. If you're serious about being a friend of open source, if you're serious about preparing Sun for the future we can all see coming in which code secrecy and proprietary lock-in will no longer be viable strategies, prove it. Let Java go.'

"Java Is Not a Bazaar" - Open Letter to Sun from Eric S. Raymond

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:00:00 EST

Eric S. Raymond ('ESR') responds to Jonathan Schwartz's obervations the other day that the JCP development process behind Java is a 'Bazaar' while the Linux way of doing things is more like a 'Cathedral.' That's a woeful misappropriation of the bazaar model he first expounded in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, says ESR.

What Does 2004 Hold in Store for Linux?

Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:00:00 EST

LinuxWorld Magazine is in the process of collecting predictions about what will be happening with Linux in the upcoming year for an article to appear in our January issue. We're having such fun with it, we thought we'd share it with linuxworld.com readers and let you get in on the action!

A Response to SCO's Open Letter

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:00:00 EDT

Bruce Perens and 'ESR' (Eric S. Raymond) have just issued an Open Letter in response to yesterday's Darl McBride missive - read it here on LinuxWorld.com right now.