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Eric Steven Raymond's Home Page

Welcome to my piece of the Web. I maintain quite a lot of open-source software, FAQs, and HTML documents, so this site is rather complex. It's all HTML 3.2 and light on the graphics, though. You won't have to wait an eon for any of the pages to load.

To help you navigate, almost all the pages have a standard layout. In each page's header and footer you'll find a link to its parent page, a link to a site map that indexes all pages, and the date that the page was last modified.

If you see broken images, get a browser that can view PNGs. This is a GIF-free site. Now that Unisys is shaking down websites that use GIFs for a $5000 license fee, you should burn all your GIFs too.

These pages use no Netscape- or Internet Exploiter-specific tags. Help stamp out stupid Web design -- make your pages interoperable!

You can see a list of my upcoming speaking engagements.

If you're with the press, or want me to give a talk, here are answers to the usual questions.

As a public service and act of civil disobedience, we are proud to offer the DeCSS code that will allow you to circumvent the encryption on the DVDs you own. Your DVD, your hardware, your choice! (Please do not ask me technical questions about this code; I have never used it.)


You can fetch my GPG public key here. I support widespread use of strong cryptography for privacy, and encourage you to use GPG encryption with this key when sending me messages. If your mailer makes this difficult, consider switching to Mutt.

You can read all about my projects, past present and future, including the software and FAQs and Web resources I maintain.

I do consulting under the Thyrsus Enterprises service mark. You can surf to my resume from here, if you're interested in my career or qualifications. I'm not in the market for a job just now, though, unless you can offer a project that really fascinates me.

You can read personal stuff about my life and politics and hobbies and friends. You may also find my writings of interest. If you're looking for The Cathedral and the Bazaar or any of its followup papers, my writings page is where you'll find them.

You can send me mail at esr@thyrsus.com.
Shortcuts to some of my pages and projects are collected below.

[Jargon File] [CCIL] [The Eric Conspiracy]
[Linux Documentation Project] [fetchmail]
[open-source software] [faqs]


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Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>