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March 24, 2008

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a very good dissertation about two completely different ways in which people write software: the open-source approach (with Linux as the main example) and the closed-source approach.

The entire text can be read freely at http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

Going into the details that the book covers would be superfluous. Like reinventing the wheel. I'll just say that it's a good reading for any software engineer, software architect or programmer.

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Quite an interesting read, i think open source wins it though. Look at what so many open source projects with minimal funding have achieved.
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