%0 Book %1 raymond2001cathedral %A Raymond, Eric S. %C Beijing; Cambridge; Farnham; Köln; Paris; Sebastopol; Taip %D 2001 %I O'Reilly Media %K freesoftware hackers linux opensource %P 241 %T The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary %U http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ %X I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of the 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. %7 2., überarb. und erw. A. %@ 0-596-00108-8

@book{raymond2001cathedral, abstract = {I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of the 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.}, added-at = {2011-08-11T14:51:35.000+0200}, address = {Beijing; Cambridge; Farnham; Köln; Paris; Sebastopol; Taip}, author = {Raymond, Eric S.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a83f1c344fc6fe12cffb18175b610342/meneteqel}, contents = {– Foreword (S. ix–x)– Preface: Why you should care (S. xi–xiv)– A brief history of hackerdom (S. 1–17)– The cathedral and the bazaar (S. 19–63)(Online: www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ )– Homesteading the noosphere (S. 65–111)– The magic cauldron (S. 113–166)– Revenge of the hackers (S. 167–191)– Afterword: beyond software? (S. 193f.)– Appendix A: How to become a hacker (S. 195–213)– Appendix B: Statistical trends in the Fetchmail project’s growth (S. 215–217)– Notes, bibliography, and acknowledgments– Index (S. 237–241)(S. 219–235)}, edition = {2., überarb. und erw. A.}, interhash = {3fbbba1926d6f49d1692a17aa85bb0f8}, intrahash = {a83f1c344fc6fe12cffb18175b610342}, isbn = {0-596-00108-8}, keywords = {freesoftware hackers linux opensource}, language = {eng}, note = {With a foreword by Bob Young}, pages = 241, publisher = {O'Reilly Media}, timestamp = {2020-11-02T22:16:10.000+0100}, title = {The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary}, url = {http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/}, year = 2001 }