As Nick points out (and quotes me to this end), software development is not an either/or decision between the cathedral and the bazaar – it is a symbiosis of the two.

The “cathedral” represents a closed source model where developers sit in their ivory tower, building an application hidden from the world and unveil it when ready.

There are two fundamental approaches to building software, and they're often called the Cathedral and the Bazaar, as described by Eric Raymond over a decade ago as a presentation.

Development using open source code takes place in all kind of environments, from universities to big corporations, and often follows the same patterns as any other kind of software development.

More than prescribing one solution to answer open source projects’ questions or treating the “open source community” as a monolithic whole, the authors seek to offer a range of possibilities and ...

Eric S. Raymond’s 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar examines prominent dichotomies in software development: top-down or bottom-up, closed or open.. There’s the cathedral — where an exclusive team ...

The "open source model" is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration. In contrast, some software has source code that only the person, team, or organization who ...

Now, free software has been around since the first computers, but the philosophy of both free software and open source are both much newer. In the 1970s and 80s, companies rose up which sought to ...

By that, he meant that 80 percent of technology value—whether it's from smartphones, TVs, or IT—will be coming from open source software development with only 20 percent coming from ...

Economists at Harvard Business School recently found that open-source software has saved companies almost $9 trillion in development costs by allowing them to build their products on top of high ...