TheCathedralAndTheBazaar

EricRaymond's Seminal paper on OpenSource software.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

Obviously these days I see it as part of a plot to strip RichardStallman's political / ethical imperative from the FreeSoftware movement.

But it's still a good and insightful essay.

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