People To Thank
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 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.
Catherine Olanich Raymond
Lastly, but not leastly, Catherine Olanich Raymond. 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:

Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>