Eric S. Raymond

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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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. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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In the beginning, there were Real Programmers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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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. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Eric S. Raymond

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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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

— Eric S. Raymond

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