I wish there were an English word for Baazaar; we used to have the word Market but now that word means aggregate demand IE the job market not the fish market.

I wish there were an English word for Baazaar; we used to have the word Market but now that word means aggregate demand IE the job market not the fish market. Also I wish we could understand "Cathedral vs Bazaar" as an analogy and stop comparing Notre Dame Cathedral and Istanbul Rug Market in this thread. "Rug Market" software = I recompile my kernel to upgrade = Debian "Cathedral" software = the central planning organization sell me my OS upgrade = everything Apple It should be obvious that Cathedral development can guarantee higher quality. Critical systems get written in ADA and VLISP and run on QNX. You would be insane to to try to deploy a critical system in C++/Ruby on Debian, and, depending on the circumstances, you might get arrested if you tried. "Rug Market" however can scale to larger codebase sizes, because "Cathedral" costs more per line of code. So "Rug Market" wins, when software correctness doesn't really matter.