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Re:Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' Turns 19 by vintermann on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @05:06AM (#11759942)
If you go there, you also want to take something that covers microcomputers. There were many things in Cathedral and the Bazaar I rolled my eyes at, but the one thing that arguably hurt was that he downplayed and ignored microcomputer history ("their language was BASIC, so primitive that..." - no ESR, it was assembly! "vast disconnected hinterland" - no ESR, we had a huge network of BBSes and internet access via it). For lionizing Torvalds, you'd thought he'd notice that Torvalds taught himself assembly on the VIC 20.

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