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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Ever wondered why open source finally yields products that work? Eric Raymod discusses that in this paper using the bazaar as a metaphor for open source hacker developed software to contrast the cathedral that resembles a tight system of rules used to develop closed source software in large firms. A historic significance of this paper was of the reasons for making Netscape to release their browser source code in 1998, to battle Microsoft's internet explorer increased market share.
Eric Raymond
Added 25 Nov 2008
Updated 26 Nov 2008
Type Others
Year 1997
Where web
Authors Eric Raymond
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