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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

  Different, Machines, Faces

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.9, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Communication, Development, Coercion

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.54, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Stupid, Independent, Skin Color

  "What good is IQ?" by Eric S. Raymond, esr.ibiblio.org. November 17, 2003.

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• Of course, C proved indispensible to the developers of all its alternatives. Dig down through enough implementation layers under any of the other languages surveyed here and you will find a core implemented in pure, portable C

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  Alternatives, Layers, Language

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.326, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

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  Memories, Management, Problem

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

  Eric S. Raymond

  Firsts, Computer, Speed

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Free markets select for winning solutions.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Winning, Select, Free Market

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• It is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature

  Eric S. Raymond

  Cat, Hackers

  Eric S. Raymond (1996). “The New Hacker's Dictionary”, p.530, MIT Press

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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.

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  Giving, Able, Ethics

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.12, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

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  Dog, Cousin, Animal

  "Homesteading the Noosphere". Essay by Eric S. Raymond, www.catb.org. 1998.

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• 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

  Thinking, Stories, Might

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.15, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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

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  Class, Machines, World

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.12, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The Wesnoth devs are good but not exceptionally so, and we're weighed down by a crappy implementation language (C++). Nevertheless our productivity, in terms of goals achieved per hour of work, is quite high.

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  Language, Implementation

  "What a Modern Collaboration Toolkit Looks Like". Emacs-devel thread, lists.gnu.org. December 30, 2007.

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