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Is it a disadvantage of the bazaar model ? In a cathedral so to speak old things are valued. In a bazaar things are sold based on trends. I see this a lot with

• morsch 6y ago
  It's a fun application of the metaphor. But I can still apt install nethack, a thing that was made in 1987. Or apt install lynx, a text mode browser first released in 1992. Or apt install midnight-commander, a Norton Commander[1] clone first released in 1994. All of these still receive updates, so I guess they don't qualify as old things per se, but that's the point: as long as there is still a use for them, they keep getting updated. If CSD2 or Nuclear Throne had been released as open source software, chances are somebody would have updated their dependencies and they'd run fine. Heck, I'm a developer, I could probably have fixed it myself. But they're proprietary, and have gotten stale, and are a pain to get working. So I guess it's more of an incompatibility between the two models than an attribute of the bazaar. [1] an old thing that's valued in the Cathedral, if at all, then only as a curiosity
  • foobar_ 6y ago
    That's true. Well to stretch the metaphor ;) some shops in the bazaars become boutiques to differentiate from other competitors. Boutiques price their uniqueness and that's certainly true of things like vim which is certainly an old software.