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Everybody Loves Eric Raymond
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| Everybody Loves Eric Raymond | |
|---|---|
 Cancomical Lynchpad, March 22, 2006 |
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| Author(s) | John Leach |
| Website | http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/ |
| Current status | Published in a regular but sporadic fashion |
| Launch date | May 2005 |
Everybody Loves Eric Raymond (ELER) is a webcomic created by John Leach and is co-written with Louisa Parry with help from friends and random strangers. Its name is a play on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. It is created and published "in a regular but sporadic fashion", using only free software.
Since October 28, 2005 the episodes have been created on an open wiki. All episodes are available under a free content license, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.[1]
The comic traditionally consists of three panels, and is largely based on a topical story from the Free Software world. The general plot is that Eric Raymond, Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman share a flat/apartment in an undisclosed location. Other characters from the community have appeared, including Jon "maddog" Hall, Rob Malda (from Slashdot), Bruce Perens, Mark Shuttleworth and Hans Reiser.
Stallman and Raymond have commented on the comic as has Raymond's wife.[2][3] Torvalds has yet to make his feelings known, but has commented on one specific comic.[4]
Gervase Markham was honoured to have been included in the strip.[5]
Mark Shuttleworth made a tongue-in-cheek reply: "For the record, I've not eaten a lot of babies."[6]
- ^ Everybody loves Creative Commons. Creative Commons Blog (July 27, 2005). Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
- ^ Kernel mentor. ELER (May 17, 2005). Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
- ^ Hyper Threading. ELER (May 24, 2005). Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
- ^ Sandals, not flip-flops. ELER (February 11, 2006). Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
- ^ Gervase Markham (programmer) (September 9, 2006). Hacking For RMS?. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.
- ^ Mark Shuttleworth (February 24, 2006). The Canonical business model featured on this week Everybody loves Eric Raymond. Ubuntu sounder mailing list. Retrieved on March 13, 2007.