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Please share your thoughts on the matter at on the Articles for deletion page. Feel free to edit the article, but the article must not be blanked, and this notice must not be removed, until the discussion is closed. For more information, particularly on merging or moving the article during the discussion, read the . ---- : & 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 sparodic 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—Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (cc-by-sa)*.
Characters 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. Reaction Stallman and Raymond have commented on the comic as has Raymond's wife. Torvalds has yet to make his feelings known, but has commented on one specific comic ''Sandals, not flip-flops''. Gervase Markham was honoured to have been included in the strip.*. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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