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*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).
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 wide picture view.
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.
{ The online version is not very long, the writing style is good and there are nice, catchy observations about software development, however it's still quite shitty, towards the end I was falling asleep, only the capitalist trigger words kept me awake eventually. But there are some nice things, like "plan to throw one away", i.e. when you want to write something, you'll probably have to write it once badly, by which you really understand the issue, then you throw it away and implement it again, this time well. ~drummyfish }