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.

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 ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

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 ...

As of today (June 1, 2017), we've been talking about open source for exactly 19 years, 3 months and 23 days. The start date was February 8, 1998, when Eric S. Raymond distributed an open letter by ...

What are some examples of open-source software? Some of the most famous software systems are open source, such as Linux, the operating system that Google’s Android mobile system was built on top of.