Why You Should Care; A Brief History of Hackerdom; The Cathedral and the Bazaar; Homesteading the Noosphere; The Magic Cauldron; The Revenge of the Hackers; Author's Afterword. Beyond Software?; Appendix. How To Become a Hacker; Appendix to The Magic Cauldron.
Eric S. Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. His own software projects include one of the Internet's most widely used email transport programs. Mr. Raymond is also a science fiction fan, a musician, an activist for the First and Second Amendments, and a martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. His home page is at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr.
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