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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by hn_throwaway_99 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @07:15PM (#35942204)
> a closed-source commercial software development methodology that predates this article by about 4 years, and was au courant at the time Raymond was was writing.

I think you are misremembering. Check out the Wikipedia article on Extreme Programming [1] - The book Extreme Programming Explained wasn't published until 1999. Kent Back didn't even start working on the idea until 1996.

In any case, I'm not arguing that the idea of "release early and release often" was complete unheard of, but I am arguing that it was definitely not the standard and I would say the idea had more detractors than adherents at that time. There was still very much a battle between "waterfall processes" and "agile processes" that was really just starting to get going in the late 90s.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming

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Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) by tomnipotent on Sunday May 14, 2023 @07:38PM (#35942365)
> I think you are misremembering

And yet you link to a Wikipedia article that clearly explains that XP was used internally at Chrysler on a closed-source commercial software project for years before being published as a book.

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