Re: Free software book?
"Jon Grant" <[email protected]>
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On 31/01/2008, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Quoting Ciaran O'Riordan <[email protected]>: > > >> Cathedral and the Bazaar ? > > > > Bleh. From what I've heard, it's not good. > > It's not, no. Raymond starts from a position of ignorance about how > cathedrals were built and bazaars operated and goes downhill from there. We wouldn't have had had a browser if it wasn't for that book, and one could even argue that Netscape lead the way for adoption of free/open software. We would be many years "behind" (on uptake) if it had not been for Raymond's book. Cheers, Jon