The Web Economy/12

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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