The bazaar was possible because cathedrals like Unix existed which were robust enough to gloat over failures of sound design on part of newbie programmers. Yes,

The bazaar was possible because cathedrals like Unix existed which were robust enough to gloat over failures of sound design on part of newbie programmers. Yes, we are now coming to increasingly complex systems in the web too, which are still held together with nothing more than duct tape. Scripting languages which are not type safe, cut and paste and tolerant browsers which hog memory are all manifestaions. Not a great way to build a huge edifice I would say.