On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:44:16PM -0500, Will Martin wrote:
Well, Eric S. Raymond's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is pretty close to what you are proposing; it discusses the evolution of fetchmail.
Raymond's paper tried to draw conclusions about the development model. In some sense he is trying more as you would do if you just explain the history of one program. On the other hand, he does not include the Free Software philosophy part necessary.