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Thirteen years ago, Eric Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (O'Reilly Media, 2001) Off by two? Seriously, though, how do you get 13 out of that (unle
by pasbesoin 14y ago
Thirteen years ago, Eric Raymond's book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (O'Reilly Media, 2001)
Off by two?
Seriously, though, how do you get 13 out of that (unless calculating from when the author conceivably began working on the book per se)?
I'm starting to read the article; I found mildly disconcerting that the first sentence appears to make a mis-statement, but I don't expect that to foreshadow the meat of the message. (We'll see. :-)
- phkamp 14y agoThe editors put in that reference, the essay was available before the book was published.
- pasbesoin 14y agoFair enough. But a reader not familiar with this is going to wonder. (Maybe none, given that this is in the ACM Queue.) Maybe the following edit? "Thirteen years ago, Eric Raymond's essay and subsequent book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (O'Reilly Media, 2001)..." P.S. Done reading now. Enjoyed/appreciated your essay. Amongst other things, perhaps useful for the younger / newer to the technology generation to appreciate where this "configure soup" comes from.
- hollerith 14y agoCatB was an essay on a web page for years before the book of that name.
- billswift 14y agoThat is the revised edition, the first edition of the book was published in 1999, which was 13 years ago.