Eric S. Raymond Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.”

“A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet.”

“The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.”

“The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.”

“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.”