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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary Paperback – January 15, 2001

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Open source provides the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. According to the August Forrester Report, 56 percent of IT managers interviewed at Global 2,500 companies are already using some type of open source software in their infrastructure and another 6 percent will install it in the next two years. This revolutionary model for collaborative software development is being embraced and studied by many of the biggest players in the high-tech industry, from Sun Microsystems to IBM to Intel.The Cathedral & the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the future of the computer industry or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come. According to Bob Young, "This is Eric Raymond's great contribution to the success of the open source revolution, to the adoption of Linux-based operating systems, and to the success of open source users and the companies that supply them."The interest in open source software development has grown enormously in the past year. This revised and expanded paperback edition includes new material on open source developments in 1999 and 2000. Raymond's clear and effective writing style accurately describing the benefits of open source software has been key to its success. With major vendors creating acceptance for open source within companies, independent vendors will become the open source story in 2001.

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January 15, 2001
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Publisher : O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (January 15, 2001)
Language : English
Paperback : 241 pages
ISBN-10 : 0596001088
ISBN-13 : 978-0596001087
Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.54 x 8.5 inches

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Bogdan Barbu

The book is good, the kindle version isn't

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2019

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While the content of this book I think is worthwhile reading, my rating has to take into the consideration the format as well, as you're ultimately interested in what you're going to get when you buy this. In particular, I've noticed some big problems:

1. While the content is in the right order, the page ordering is messed up and not even in sequence.
2. The footnote links often lead to the wrong footnotes.
3. The bibliography and acknowledgements appear somewhere in the middle of the footnotes.

I hope someone will bother updating this ebook because it would definitely be worth it.

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D. E. Evans

Articles on open-source from ESR

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2018

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This paperback by O'reilly seems to have suffered from a typographical blowout. I had to visit Raymond's website to complete missing/damaged portions of the book. The contents are an excellent explanation of the open-source paradigm of programming en masse, and the motivation for writing software that is free from vendor lock-in. Considering the prevalence of open-source software (sometimes called free or libre software), every programmer and admin that deals with software should read this book. Hopefully, current prints are not as poor.

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Maxim Masiutin

A Collection of Essays on Open Source

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2008

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a collection of essays originally meant for programmers and technical managers, written by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail.

I you like a deeper work on Linux development, I can recommend the book "Rebel Code" by Glyn Moody.

fetchmail, is an open-source software utility to retrieve e-mail from a remote mail server. It was developed by Eric S. Raymond from the popclient program, written by Carl Harris. Its chief significance is perhaps that its author, Eric S. Raymond, used it as a model to discuss his theories of open source software development in this book. Some programmers, including Dan Bernstein, getmail creator Charles Cazabon and FreeBSD developer Terry Lambert, have criticized fetchmail's design], its number of security holes, and that it was prematurely put into "maintenance mode". In 2004, a new team of maintainers took over fetchmail development, and laid out development plans that in some cases broke with design decisions that Eric Raymond had made in earlier versions.

The essays in the book describe open-source software, the process of systematically harnessing open develplment and decentralized peer review to lower costs and improve software quality. contrasts two different free software development models:

- The Cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of software developers. GNU Emacs and GCC are presented as examples.

- The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public. Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process. Raymond also provides anecdotal accounts of his own implementation of this model for the fetchmail project.

The essay's central thesis is Raymond's proposition that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (which he terms Linus' law): the more widely available the source code is for public testing, scrutiny, and experimentation, the more rapidly all forms of bugs will be discovered. In contrast, Raymond claims that an inordinate amount of time and energy must be spent hunting for bugs in the Cathedral model, since the working version of the code is available only to a few developers.

When O'Reilly Media published the book in 1999, it achieved another distinction by being the first complete and commercially distributed book published under the Open Publication License.

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J. head

Is it time for Linux ?

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2005

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This books starts off with a very good history of the development of the Linux operating software. This open source development process started the author thinking about the two software development methods, the Cathedral method, where a large corporate structure hires programmers to develop software, keeps the source code secret, and charges large amounts to recoup it costs, not from the original product development, but from the expected legacy problems, technical support, bug fixing, software updates, etc. On the other hand the bazaar method, encourages open source software. Open source software encourages a programmer or group within the hacker community to gain ascendancy, to possess and maintain and steer the software to keep it relevant. The Author's point is that with most business models in the future the Cathedral method (read Microsoft) will not be able to compete with the Bazaar method (read Linux). In the Cathedral method the programmers must be hired, the bazaar method the hackers are attracted to a problem, become more dedicated, revisions and bugs are handled at internet speed. The author tells of many real-life business experiences companies have had adopting the open source method. The middle of the book explains the hacker ethic and how the hacker community operates. The reader learns the true meaning of "hacker" v.s. "cracker" and the true meaning of free software. The author predicts that open source software will make deep in-roads into the Fortune-500 companies. That their investments in hardware and records may be dependent on one software company's decision to continue supporting that software revision is the problem. Open source software would provide a proliferation of hacker communities willing to constantly update older software. The author appears to know his stuff and progressively throughout the book the author lets it leak out that he is one of the hacker community and is a player/spokesman in this software battle I found this book a real eye-opener, can Microsoft's workforce continue to support software like Windows 2000 with 60 million lines of code, as opposed to Linux taking advantage of a worldwide army of hackers reporting bugs, writing patches, and keeping hardware drivers updated. Time will tell.

This book was enough to prompt this reader to obtain a copy of Linux just in case..

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Great historical document

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 3, 2016

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Probably the earliest book on Open Source. Written by one of the founders of the movement, it gives us a great description of how it came about and why it worked. It's hugely motivating.

However, it was written aeons ago (in terms of the word of software). You won't find in it how the modern Open Source world works. But it's still a great introduction to Open Source.

I wish it could be updated for 2016.

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Andrew Dalby

The Bible for the Open Source Model

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2009

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This was the first book that wrote down the open source credo, and that presented sound arguments for an open source business model. The book presents the case that in software the main costs are development and debugging and as any author knows (either in general or a software author) you never get it right first time. So the biggest cost is never releasing because you are worried it is not perfect. By taking an open source approach you let the community do the debugging and finish the development. They can customise it as they want and the community provides the support. So the costs shift and development improves. This book gives examples of the real impact of open source, including the rapid growth of Linux and the dominance of Apache. It shows how closed source business can go open source to prevent their competitors monopolising a sector (Netscape open sourcing Mozilla).

These are great examples but I was left wondering if the model still held up. Originally this was a set of regularly updated web essays, but since the 2001 edition they have been set in stone and so I wanted to know if the rules still hold. For example what has been the impact of Google on open source and how does Google fit into the open source model? Social networking such as MySpace and Facebook is another case in point.

For me it is also not as easy to read as I had hoped. The style lets it down and it is obvious it is written by an insider and needed some better editing to give it more impact and less "geekiness". I am a geek myself but there are limits to how geeky readers want you to be as an author.

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Alexm

This is a great book if you're an experienced Linux user

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2015

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This is a great book if you're an experienced Linux user, who wasn't born during the time of it's active development or just want to reiterate it. Great writing style, witty remarks that keep the reader entertained. I have learned a great deal from this book about open and closed source development models and the culture behind both.

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mark keiller

Great purchase! Thanks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2017

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As advertised. Great purchase! Thanks.

Debbie

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2015

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Fab book..

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