>> Hope this reminder is useful to your members - rds.
NYPC - NY PC Users Group - http://www.nypc.org
NYPC & The New School Invite You
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Eric Raymond on Open Source
Doors open 6:00 pm
General PC Q&A 6:30 - 7:30
Presentation 7:30 - 9:30
Tishman Auditorium
The New School 66 West 12th Street
***** Free and open to the public, no RSVP required *******
Eric's book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar is in its second
printing.
He has written the popular Unix fetchmail utility and books
and papers on everything from Linux editors to economics.
He is the president and chief evangelist of the Open Source
Initiative.
Eric Raymond's web site: http://tuxedo.org/~esr
Eric Raymond is a hacker, in the original sense of the word.
He's written the popular Unix fetchmail utility and books and
papers on everything from Linux editors to economics, and
he's the president (and chief evangelist) of
the Open Source Initiative. He also plays a mean flute.
Eric is also the unofficial historian of the hacker movement.
I'm not talking about crackers, people who break into computer
systems, destroy web sites, etc. I'm talking about hackers,
the people who invented Unix and started the personal computer
industry, and who today write the code that keeps most of our
world running. Eric's book, "The New Hackers Dictionary"
is based on a public file on the Internet, which was started as
a dictionary of terms for programmers. It shows the meanings
of words like "hacker" as they were originally defined.
Eric is one of the world's foremost Linux proponents, open
source proponents, and Unix gurus, and is a really nice guy.
He's given presentations on Open Source, Linux, Unix, politics,
economics, the Internet, and the history of hacking.
One thing I can promise you: he's never dull.
Benefits of Open Source
Eric's book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" began life as an
essay examining the economic benefits of open-source software
to the business community. The Open Source Initiative's goals
(simplified) are the distribution of software with its
original source code (programming language), and the ability
to examine, change, and distribute that program to anyone else.
Now in its second printing, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
dramatically changed the way the business world looked at
open-source software in general and Linux in particular.
It also convinced Netscape to release the source code for their
Navigator web browser, making it one of the first well-known
open-source products. Netscape explicitly mentioned "The Cathedral
and the Bazaar" as its influence in releasing the Navigator
source code.
The Linux operating system is one of the best-known open-source
programs, but there are many others. The political, business,
and economic ramifications of open-source software have kept
closed-source vendors busy downplaying its effects.
Various internal and external corporate documents have outlined
their serious concerns about the open-source movement in general
and Linux in particular. Obviously, Eric and the open-source
movement may be onto something.
--- write-up by Lee Thalblum
NYPC - NY PC Users Group - http://www.nypc.org
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