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Inside the mind of the enemy: the community
- 2006-11-21
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A few years back, Eric S. Raymond (or, as everyone else calls him, ESR), wrote a lengthy paper about this community. Entitled The Cathedral and the Bazaar, he wrote about how the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community does what it wants when it wants to.
I don’t think he was entirely wrong; I just don’t think he was entirely right, either.
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