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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric Steven Raymond
Thyrsus Enterprises
<esr@thyrsus.com>
This is version 3.0
Copyright © 2000 Eric S. Raymond
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Open Publication License, version 2.0.
$Date: 2002/08/02 09:02:14 $
Revision History
Revision 1.57 11 September 2000 esr New major section ``How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity''.
Revision 1.52 28 August 2000 esr MATLAB is a reinforcing parallel to Emacs. Corbato— & Vyssotsky got it in 1965.
Revision 1.51 24 August 2000 esr First DocBook version. Minor updates to Fall 2000 on the time-sensitive material.
Revision 1.49 5 May 2000 esr Added the HBS note on deadlines and scheduling.
Revision 1.51 31 August 1999 esr This the version that O'Reilly printed in the first edition of the book.
Revision 1.45 8 August 1999 esr Added the endnotes on the Snafu Principle, (pre)historical examples of bazaar development, and originality in the bazaar.
Revision 1.44 29 July 1999 esr Added the ``On Management and the Maginot Line'' section, some insights about the usefulness of bazaars for exploring design space, and substantially improved the Epilog.
Revision 1.40 20 Nov 1998 esr Added a correction of Brooks based on the Halloween Documents.
Revision 1.39 28 July 1998 esr I removed Paul Eggert's 'graph on GPL vs. bazaar in response to cogent aguments from RMS on
Revision 1.31 February 10 1998 esr Added ``Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar!''
Revision 1.29 February 9 1998 esr Changed ``free software'' to ``open source''.
Revision 1.27 18 November 1997 esr Added the Perl Conference anecdote.
Revision 1.20 7 July