The Cathedral And The Bazaar
(ERIC RAYMOND)
Open Sources is a rather mixed collection, with contributors
from a wide range of backgrounds addressing different aspects of free software
(open source) from different directions. So Eric Raymond presents historical
accounts of hacker culture, Richard Stallman writes about the ethics of free
software, Bruce Perens writes about licenses, Robert Young and Brian Behlendorf
and others look at the business arguments for free software, Scott Bradner and
Paul Vixie and others approach it from a software engineering perspective, and
Larry Wall contributes a grand ramble on symbols. There''s some great material
in all of this, but it doesn''t work that well as a book ? newcomers to the
concept of free software are likely to find it confusing, while others can read
just those portions that interest them online.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a compilation of Eric Raymond''s
writings on Open source, containing "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
itself, "Homesteading the Noosphere", and the "Magic
Cauldron", along with "A Brief History of Hackerdom" and "The
Revenge of the Hackers" (the latter two are also included in Open
Sources). Even if one disagrees with elements of Raymond''s personal ethics
(and I myself side with Richard Stallman on pretty much all their points of
conflict), his insightful sociological and historical analysis is separable
from that. And The Cathedral and the Bazaar works better as a printed
volume than Open Sources because of the unity of voice: I had read all
the works it contains separately, but found it useful reading them again
together.
One advantage of printed works is in advocacy, in reaching those who are not
comfortable reading online or don''t have the time to sort through web sites. So
I plan to send my review copies of both these books to one of the few
Australian politicians who really understands technology issues (Barry Jones).
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