Eric S. Raymond is a fairly prolific open source contributor, but he's probably most famous as an author and essayist, specifically of _The Cathedral and the Ba

Eric S. Raymond is a fairly prolific open source contributor, but he's probably most famous as an author and essayist, specifically of _The Cathedral and the Bazaar_, which arguably did more to popularize the notion of open source than Stallman ever did for free software [0]. I particularly like his series of posts about his modern rewrite of Crowther and Woods' Adventure, starting here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7536 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7536 [0] It helps that ESR's arguments where largely practical in nature rather than ideological. In particular, he coined the aphorism, "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow".