Premise

Everybody Loves Eric Raymond is a web comic depicting the very real lives of Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond and Linus Torvalds as accurately as comedically possible.

Their real lives, which include living together in a house, with dynamic dimensions, without their wives or girlfriends. Also, they always wear the same clothes. And don’t move their eyes much.

Development

ELER was created by John Leach and is co-written by Louisa Parry with help from friends and random strangers (via the wiki). Regular contributors include Gianni Tedesco, Roel Teuwen and Jim Thompson. It’s created and published weekly, using only free software.

Feedback is always appreciated, whether by email or by the “comments” link on each strip.

Feel free to send in Eric, Richard or Linus photos for use as heads.

All ELER script development takes place on the wiki. If you’d like to contribute, sign up for an account and start adding ideas or comments.

As of May 2006, the Gimp and Inkscape source files for each strip are available. See the SourceCode page at the wiki.

License

Everybody Loves Eric Raymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Some of the photos of the heads are of unknown origin and therefore unknown license, so be careful. If any of the photos belong to you and you would like to grant me permission (or want me to stop using them) then get in touch.

When attributing the work, just link back to here http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/.