Re:A Generation Lost in the Bazaar (2012)
by jasode on Sunday December 03, 2017 @01:42PM
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>I was under the impression the cathedral was eg describing GNU projects and the bazaar was describing eg the Linux kernel.
Yes, that was Eric S Raymond's[1] particular examples. However, phkamp extended it with phkamp's particular examples (Bell Labs UNIX (cathedral), Apple iOS (bazaar), Firefox (bazaar), Microsoft (neither bazaar nor cathedral?), etc).
I should emphasize that it doesn't matter whether phkamp's classifications are "correct". (Indeed, the previous thread showed many disagreed with his taxonomy and 2 ex-Apple programmers contradict each other on iOS.)
Whatever idiosyncratic definition phkamp wants to use for "cathedral/bazaar", the point is readers have to be aware of it to understand his acmqueue essay. (As I said previously, the freestanding article does not make his thesis clear so it lead to subsequent discussions that misunderstood what he wrote.)
Yes, that was Eric S Raymond's[1] particular examples. However, phkamp extended it with phkamp's particular examples (Bell Labs UNIX (cathedral), Apple iOS (bazaar), Firefox (bazaar), Microsoft (neither bazaar nor cathedral?), etc).
I should emphasize that it doesn't matter whether phkamp's classifications are "correct". (Indeed, the previous thread showed many disagreed with his taxonomy and 2 ex-Apple programmers contradict each other on iOS.)
Whatever idiosyncratic definition phkamp wants to use for "cathedral/bazaar", the point is readers have to be aware of it to understand his acmqueue essay. (As I said previously, the freestanding article does not make his thesis clear so it lead to subsequent discussions that misunderstood what he wrote.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar#....