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# Bazaar (The Cathedral And The Bazaar)
*The Cathedral and the Bazaar* (shortened to *catb*) is a very famous [software engineering](sw_engineering.md) essay from 1997 by [Eric S. Raymond](esr.md) (ESR, a famous oldschool hacker writer) which analyzes the development method of [Linux](linux.md), at the time a new way of mass developing [FOSS](foss.md) software by many volunteers over the [Internet](internet.md) with relatively little central planning -- this method is called the *Bazaar* (the word used for marketplace in middle east) and is contrasted with so called *Cathedral* method, i.e. the traditional, highly centralized development of software (not necessarily of [proprietary](proprietary.md) software). This essay was later being expanded, updated and made into a whole book -- the short version of it can be read on ESR's website. It played a role in [corporations](corporation.md) adopting "[open source](open_source.md)" (Netscape, i.e. Firefox, was "open sourced" basically because of this essay).
*The Cathedral and the Bazaar* (shortened to *catb*) is a very famous [software engineering](sw_engineering.md) paper from 1997 by [Eric S. Raymond](esr.md) (ESR, a famous oldschool hacker writer) which analyzes the development method of [Linux](linux.md), at the time a new way of mass developing [FOSS](foss.md) software by many volunteers over the [Internet](internet.md) with relatively little central planning -- this method is called the *Bazaar* (the word used for marketplace in middle east) and is contrasted with so called *Cathedral* method, i.e. the traditional, highly centralized development of software (not necessarily of [proprietary](proprietary.md) software). This essay was later being expanded, updated and made into a whole book -- the short version of it can be read on ESR's website. It played a role in [corporations](corporation.md) adopting "[open source](open_source.md)" (Netscape, i.e. Firefox, was "open sourced" basically because of this essay).
Watch out: Raymond used to be an oldschool [hacker](hacking.md) who however, like many others, later turned to the evil side once he smelled money and fame; he basically became hardcore [capitalist](capitalism.md), promoting [open $ource](open_source.md), free markets and even doing business himself. It can very well be seen in the essay -- it's not about [programming](programming.md), it is about software engineering, i.e. managing and manipulating masses of people to work like machines who will be continuously producing lines of code. It focused on things such as ["productivity"](productivity_cult.md) and basically how to develop [bloat](bloat.md) in fastest way and for least cost. It takes things such as [update culture](update_culture.md), rapid development, gigantic software projects and existence of software companies for granted. Therefore *The Cathedral and the Bazaar* is of no use to [less retarded software](lrs.md) but it may be good to read for the big picture view.