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Eric Steven Raymond was born on December 4, 1957 in Boston Massachusetts.
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Eric and his family moved to Pennsylvania, USA
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Eric has done consulting and devellopment work in APL, Pascal, and LISP.
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Eric worked as software engineering for about a year. He worked on research for advanced programming and artificial intelligence.
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Eric was a lead programmer for MicroCorp where he designed products for various micros.
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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.
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A File that cover the jargon within hacking culture.
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Eric had his first encounter with linux by the pioneering Yggdrasil CD-ROM distribution.
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Wrote the essay that would eventually lead to the book
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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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Eric became a member of the board of directors of va linux systems.
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A book Eric wrote which explores his observations managing an open source project
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Eric helped contribute "howto's" that are still included in the linux Documentation Project
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Eric wrote The Art of Unix Programming which discusses user tools for programming
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Currently, Eric is working as an administrator. "The GPSD is a service daemon that handles GPSes and other navigation-related sensors"
