The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Paperback, 80 pages

English language

Published July 8, 2010 by Snowball Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-60796-228-1
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ASIN:
B00E32OENK

The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It examines the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design. The essay was first presented by the author at the Linux Kongress on May 27, 1997 in Würzburg (Germany) and was published as part of the same‑titled book in 1999.

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How open source software evolves

Beautifully written essay on how OSS is developed without the constraints suffered by closed source. It talks about things that happened in the 90s and though we've are now a quarter of a century afterwards most of its points are still valid. I'd like, however, to read a similar analysis but from a community and diversity perspective and their evolution.

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  • Computer programming