# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-s-raymond
# Generated: 2026-08-31T11:51:24.584Z

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name: "Eric S. Raymond"
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description: "Eric Steven Raymond, often referred to as ESR, is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary."
tagline: "American programmer & open source advocate (1957-)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-category-fill