If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
Eric S. RaymondToday I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
Eric S. RaymondTreating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
Eric S. RaymondSoftware is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
Eric S. RaymondI believe, but cannot prove, that global “AIDS” is a whole cluster of unrelated diseases all of which have been swept under a single rug for essentially political reasons, and that the identification of HIV as the sole pathogen is likely to go down as one of the most colossal blunders in the history of medicine.
Eric S. Raymond