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You can find driving directions here . Eric has done much to facilitate the forward movement of the Open Source model of software development. Eric also maintains several websites on the Open-Source movement, continuously advocates its principles to the software development world, and offers his time to speak to interested groups about the implications of the movement. Eric's comments at Earlham will certainly be of interest to those interested in software development paradigms, but also potentially to anyone with an interest in the emerging infrastructure of the Internet and of computer science, the tensions between the individual user and the big-business software producers, and, in general, the various issues involved in creating and distributing public software. Recently Eric and others were featured in a Newsweek article about open source software and Linux, you can read this article online here.