The Cathedral and the Bazaar

@article{citeulike:1584312, abstract = {I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.}, author = {Raymond, Eric S. }, citeulike-article-id = {1584312}, journal = {First Monday}, keywords = {communities, culture, design}, number = {3}, posted-at = {2007-08-22 21:38:04}, priority = {2}, title = {The Cathedral and the Bazaar}, url = {http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3\_3/raymond/}, volume = {3}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1584312 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1584312 N2 - I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software. IS - 3 JF - First Monday TI - The Cathedral and the Bazaar VL - 3 KW - communities KW - culture KW - design AU - Raymond, Eric PY - 1998/// UR - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_3/raymond/ ER -