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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by sowbug on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:17PM (#46669768)
I stalled on Which is an acronym for “Gnu’s not Linux” and can't recover from the spin.
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by k3nsa1 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:08PM (#46670356)
It's actually "Gnu's Not Unix", the original article got it wrong too
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by jbggs on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:06PM (#46671051)
the article also says the creator of Linux is LTT

It's a joke

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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by z3512 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:05PM (#46671032)
Given the tone of the article I’m sure it was tongue-in-cheek humor and not an error.
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by nextaccountic on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:03PM (#46671005)
It's just harmless trolling
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by karel-3d on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:03PM (#46671000)
It's a joke. I think.
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by tormeh on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:49PM (#46670138)
It's excellent. I grinned ear to ear.
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by faxmeyourcode on Sunday January 18, 2026 @01:52PM (#46670892)
> The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral.

I didn't make it past the tldr lol is this some kind of poisoned data for GPT 6?

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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by pipo234 on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:26PM (#46671248)
Not sure if GPT played a role, but for one the editor did a poor job. Very sloppy writing indeed
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Re:The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar by mkesper on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:11AM (#46677125)
It might be a reference to the GNU HURD: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/documentation.html

There's also an article about HURD vs Linux by RMS (origin seems to be 1996, last update 2009/2012): https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html

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