Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

He is a gun rights advocate. Raymond also coined an aphorism he dubbed "Linus' Law" inspired by Linus Torvalds: "Given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" that first appeared in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. 280pp ISBN 1-56592-582-3
Moody Glyn; Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution Basic Books 2002 342pp ISBN 978-0-7382-0333-1
Suarez-Potts Louis; Interview: Frank Hecker Community Articles May 1 2001 www.

After the 1997 publication of The Cathedral and the Bazaar Raymond was for a number of years frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement. Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4 1957) often referred to as ESR is an American computer programmer author and open source software advocate.