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bazaar
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n.,adj. In 1997, after meditating on the success of Linux for three years,
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the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture
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and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The main
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argument of the paper was that Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given
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the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across
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large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also
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cathedral ), and the style of development typical in the Linux community is
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now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include
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releasing code early and often, and actively seeking the largest possible
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pool of peer reviewers. After 1998, the evident success of this way of doing
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things became one of the strongest arguments for open source.
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