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Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
Eric S. Raymond
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Eric S. Raymond
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: December 4
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Eric Steven Raymond
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A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.
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Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
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If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
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The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user
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If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
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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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Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.
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On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.
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Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C
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Prototype, then polish. Get it working before you optimize it
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The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
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The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.
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Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
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The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction.
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).
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Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
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Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.
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