Everybody Loves Eric Raymond, A comic strip for geeky open source aficionados Options

[*mipadi*]

Probably not a lot of people around here follow much in the way of the open-source movement, and even fewer know who Eric Raymond is, but if you're a geek who has a sense of humor, there's a great comic strip called Everybody Loves Eric Raymond that I highly recommend checking out. The current strip, Eric Buys an iPod, is pretty funny. The comic strips are basically built around the quirkiness of several high-profile members of the open source community, as well as other famous faces (such as one recent strip that stars Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu Linux fame). It's a good laugh.

[*kryogenix*]

The name rings a bell, I might have seen it on slashdot or somewhere, but I'm not familiar with the man.

[*mipadi*]

Eric Raymond is best known as the author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, the seminal work about open-source software development; and as the maintainer of the Jargon File, a collection of computer-related terms. He's done other stuff, too, like writing the fetchmail email program and contributing to libpng.