The Cathedral and the Bazaar¶
Raymond, E. S. (1999). The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. O'Reilly.
Cited by¶
5 citations across 5 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Encounter Surface
- In open-source software, public issue trackers and open channels let strangers submit a patch and be seen doing so, making the encounter surface the recruitment mechanism for new contributors.
This sourceDescribes how open, publicly visible development channels recruit new contributors by letting strangers submit patches and be seen doing so.
- In open-source software, public issue trackers and open channels let strangers submit a patch and be seen doing so, making the encounter surface the recruitment mechanism for new contributors.
- Eyes On The Street
- In open-source software, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is the same pattern — many incidental readers, low-cost intervention (file an issue, propose a patch), mutual visibility (a public repository) — and codebases that fail any of the four conditions lose the benefit even when nominally open, as the Heartbleed episode showed.
This sourceStates "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (Linus's Law), the open-source analogue of distributed incidental observation.
- In open-source software, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is the same pattern — many incidental readers, low-cost intervention (file an issue, propose a patch), mutual visibility (a public repository) — and codebases that fail any of the four conditions lose the benefit even when nominally open, as the Heartbleed episode showed.
Domain-specific¶
- Joy's Law
- Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) reads the open-source movement as Joy's Law operationalized at the scale of global software development
This sourceArgues that no commercial developer can match the talent pool an open community brings to a problem - the substance the article reads as Joy's Law in practice, though Raymond never uses the term; cited to the 1999 O'Reilly book, whose title essay dates from 1997.
Supported in partVerified against the source
- Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) reads the open-source movement as Joy's Law operationalized at the scale of global software development
- Linus's Law
- Linus's Law — formulated by Eric S. Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) and attributed to Linus Torvalds
This sourceRaymond's title essay, where he states the principle as 'given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow', names it Linus's Law and credits the underlying belief to Torvalds. Raymond's account of taking over Carl Harris's popclient in 1996, renaming it fetchmail, and running it as a deliberate test of theories drawn from Linux's development. Raymond's account of releasing fetchmail every few days to fetchmail-friends, a beta list of 249 members at the time he wrote.
SupportedVerified against the source
- Linus's Law — formulated by Eric S. Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) and attributed to Linus Torvalds
Mechanisms¶
- Open-Source Collaboration Model
- This is the bazaar
This sourceDescribes the bazaar model as decentralized, self-selected development in a public, peer-reviewed commons.
- This is the bazaar
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