"Eric S. Raymond is famous for many things, not least of which are his famous papers like The Cathedral and the Bazaar and The Magic Cauldron, two works which have been instrumental in informing PHBs in Dilbertville that there just might be something worthwhile in this free software/open source 'thing.'
"His exposes of Microsoft's secret plans and ambitions chronicled in The Halloween Documents are also legendary in certain circles. And all that is fine and good. But let's not forget, shall we, that the man is a coder. Like most of us he is never short on opinions, and he is not too shy about expressing them. But that's window dressing. We're going to look at a few programs he maintains--if we can borrow a phrase from another famous coder--just for fun..."
