The Web Economy/12

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Resource type: this resource is a lesson.

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Bazaar Spirit

This is a lesson part of the module The Web Economy out of the Open Source ERP/Executive Diploma course conducted by a private university.

Topics

• Eric Raymond wrote about The Cathedral and The Bazaar^[1]. He points out 2 different models to modern software development.
• Since then it is been greatly refered to as a definition of the merits of Open Source development.
• If you do not contribute, someone else will.

Discussion

• Read and discuss the article concerning the Bazaar model of software development.
• Research whether Linux development today still uses the model and what are its challenges and constraints.
• If you have a chance to do what Linus did back then, would you give it away? What would be your concerns?
• What if you have a big company with alot of costs and have produced a perfect software^[2]. Would you give your software away? What would be your concerns now?

Activities

• Publish your works in an attractive manner in your user page, stating your own views and findings providing links to your sources. Use the talk page here to score marks.
• Create or edit sub-pages of course materials within wikiversity.
• Discuss in the forum (link shall be provided) by offering your ideas and answering or comment on others' postings.

References

1. ↑ http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
2. ↑ http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks_Chapter_2.pdf

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