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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>bazaar</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="baz.html" title="baz"/><link rel="next" href="bboard.html" title="bboard"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">bazaar</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baz.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bboard.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="bazaar"/><dt xmlns="" id="bazaar"><b>bazaar</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.,adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In 1997, after meditating on the success of
<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> for three years, the Jargon File's own editor
ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models
titled <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/" target="_top">
The Cathedral and the Bazaar</a>. The main argument of the paper was
that <a href="Brookss-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Brooks's Law</i></a> is not the whole story; given the
right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across
large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also
<a href="../C/cathedral.html"><i class="glossterm">cathedral</i></a>), and the style of development typical in
the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its
characteristics include releasing code early and often, and actively
seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers. After 1998, the
evident success of this way of doing things became one of the strongest
arguments for <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="baz.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bboard.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">baz </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bboard</td></tr></table></div></body></html>