Eric S. Raymond

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1957 age 0

   Born

2. 2001 age 44

   CreditRevolution OS

   CreditThe Code

• RSRichard Stallman2 titles
• LTLinus Torvalds2 titles
• SESusan Egan1 title
• JMJ.T.S. Moore1 title
• BPBruce Perens1 title
• MTMichael Tiemann1 title
• LALarry Augustin1 title
• BBBrian Behlendorf1 title
• HPHannu Puttonen1 title
• ACAlan Cox1 title

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• Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.

  Eric S. Raymond, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).

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• When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

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• Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.

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• There is another kind of skill not normally associated with software development which I think is as important as design cleverness to bazaar projects—and it may be more important. A bazaar project coordinator or leader must have good people and communications skills. … It is not a coincidence that Linus is a nice guy who makes people like him and want to help him.

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• It is well understood in the community that project owners have a duty to pass projects to competent successors when they are no longer willing or able to invest needed time in development or maintenance work.

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