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The Cathedral and the BazaarEric Steven Raymondcf text and copyright ~esr/writingsAbstractI anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, thatwas run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories aboutso=ware engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I dis-cuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally di:erentdevelopment styles, the Cathedral model of most of the com-mercial world versus the Bazaar model of the Linux show that these models derive from opposing assumptionsabout the nature of the so=ware-debugging task. I then make asustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposi-tion that Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow , suggestproductive analogies with other self-correcting systems of self-ish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implica-tions of this insight for the future of so= Th
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