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I was under the impression the cathedral was eg describing GNU projects and the bazaar was describing eg the Linux kernel. ie it was about comparing different s

• jasode 9y ago
  >I was under the impression the cathedral was eg describing GNU projects and the bazaar was describing eg the Linux kernel. Yes, that was Eric S Raymond's[1] particular examples. However, phkamp extended it with phkamp's particular examples (Bell Labs UNIX (cathedral), Apple iOS (bazaar), Firefox (bazaar), Microsoft (neither bazaar nor cathedral?), etc). I should emphasize that it doesn't matter whether phkamp's classifications are "correct". (Indeed, the previous thread showed many disagreed with his taxonomy and 2 ex-Apple programmers contradict each other on iOS.) Whatever idiosyncratic definition phkamp wants to use for "cathedral/bazaar", the point is readers have to be aware of it to understand his acmqueue essay. (As I said previously, the freestanding article does not make his thesis clear so it lead to subsequent discussions that misunderstood what he wrote.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#.22The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar.22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#....