People To Thank
By Eric Raymond
I'm a full-time public-service hacker...one of the few who can afford to devote every working hour to helping the Linux community and the wider open-source world. I live simply, but even so the things I do demand a fair amount of support infrastructure -- hardware, books, a network link, a roof over my head, food, stuff like that.Here are some of the people who help me out and/or I have financial ties to. Class acts, all of them, and people I'm glad to call friends.
O'Reilly & Associates
Tim O'Reilly and his crew at O'Reilly Associates [ http://www.oreilly.com/ ] are helpful too. Mainly they give me technical books (not a trivial budget item) and slip me a few bucks for the occasional technical review of a manuscript. I've co-authored one book with ORA (``Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd edition'') and authored another (``The Cathedral and the Bazaar'') and have a couple of proposals on the fire with them.Red Hat Software
I've known and cooperated with the Red Hat guys since nobody knew who they were, back in Yggdrasil days. They put me on its `Friends & Family' list just before their August 1999 IPO, and I own some shares in them.[Name Removed]
Lastly, but not leastly, [Name Removed]. One of the great unsung heroes of the hacker community :-), she supplies the roof and food and stuff so I can do things like maintaining fetchmail and half a dozen FAQs and crusading for open source. Oh, yeah, and she married me, too. She's either incredibly enlightened or completely out of her mind.Here's a thumbnail of us; click for full picture:
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Date: 2002/04/24 04:38:32
People To Thank
By Eric Raymond
I'm a full-time public-service hacker...one of the few who can afford to devote every working hour to helping the Linux community and the wider open-source world. I live simply, but even so the things I do demand a fair amount of support infrastructure -- hardware, books, a network link, a roof over my head, food, stuff like that.
Here are some of the people who help me out and/or I have financial ties to. Class acts, all of them, and people I'm glad to call friends.
O'Reilly & Associates
Tim O'Reilly and his crew at O'Reilly Associates [ http://www.oreilly.com/ ] are helpful too. Mainly they give me technical books (not a trivial budget item) and slip me a few bucks for the occasional technical review of a manuscript. I've co-authored one book with ORA (``Learning GNU Emacs, 2nd edition'') and authored another (``The Cathedral and the Bazaar'') and have a couple of proposals on the fire with them.
Red Hat Software
I've known and cooperated with the Red Hat guys since nobody knew who they were, back in Yggdrasil days. They put me on its `Friends & Family' list just before their August 1999 IPO, and I own some shares in them.
[Name Removed]
Lastly, but not leastly, [Name Removed]. One of the great unsung heroes of the hacker community :-), she supplies the roof and food and stuff so I can do things like maintaining fetchmail and half a dozen FAQs and crusading for open source. Oh, yeah, and she married me, too. She's either incredibly enlightened or completely out of her mind.
Here's a thumbnail of us; click for full picture:
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Date: 2002/07/28 08:07:49
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