Everybody Loves Eric Raymond

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.

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 , 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.

Gervase Markham was honoured to have been included in the strip.

Mark Shuttleworth originally made a tongue-in-cheek reply: "For the record, I've not eaten a lot of babies." When specifically asked how he felt about his portrayal in ELER, he replied "i love it! did you see today's? . as they say in the movie business "did ya spell my name right? there's no such thing as bad publicity" ;-)"

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