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The Cathedral and the Bazaar often comes in discussions along with the Song of Sisyphus[0], a story of how Sisyphus software became widely used within Google. T

• tptacek 3y ago
  Right. If you want something that has perhaps a more profound and interesting description of the open source model (as Zawinski would put it, the "CADT model"), it's worth going back to Richard Gabriel: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html Gabriel's essay is cited in Raymond's article. It's interesting to compare them; Raymond claims that Gabriel anticipated much of what his article was going to say, but I think they have markedly different takes about it.
  • msla 3y ago
    "Worse Is Better" is elegiac, but it can also come across as a whine: "Those dumb users can't see Quality, they can only see Done, so they ignore my Beatific Solution in favor of some New Jersey Code that isn't nearly as good as what mine is going to be." Well, in a world where Done is a myth, Quality is a horizon; it's impossible to achieve Quality when the nature of your world is changing around you. The Right Thing is only Right as long as the Thing stays still.