On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 13:27 +0100, Michael Kesper wrote:
It's a valuable story and a good analogy for development processes. It shows that free software is *better* at encouraging bazaar-style development, but it doesn't *guarantee* it — as pointed out by its examples of cathedral-style development of free software.
Point taken.
Another thing is, of course, that the bazaar model is not *always* better. It did give the tremendous success of the early Linux kernel and many more free software projects since, but for some things there's still a lot to be said for having a team of programmers sitting in the same building (e.g., like the Emacs project and a lot of proprietary software).