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Who said anything about Microsoft ?

• zzzeek 14y ago
  it's a prominent example of the "cathedral" model.
  • phkamp 14y ago
    First, it's actually not, because their architecture is focused on architecting a market, not a computing solution. Second, just because there is one bad example of a cathedral, doesn't mean the cathedral model is bad. Many years ago, a fella named Gettys (look him up!) wrote as part of sage advice for OSS philosophy: "The only thing worse than generalizing from one example, is generalizing from no example at all."
    • zzzeek 14y ago
      > Second, just because there is one bad example of a cathedral, doesn't mean the cathedral model is bad. right, but this could be applied to your example of the "configure" script as an indictment of the "bazaar" model too. Surely there's software that's come from the "bazaar" model that you feel is of high quality ? There's none whatsoever ?
• rbanffy 14y ago
  I think it's a cultural reflex. Microsoft has been paying so many people to criticize open source for so long that the first reaction when people see what they interpret as baseless criticism is to look for Ballmer's sweaty palm prints. I understand where you stand and agree some of your criticism is valid, but "quality" doesn't have the same meaning for everyone.