Discussion

The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

bryanrasmussen: so, they don't say the Winchester Mystery House is a bad model for building software, although they somewhat imply it.

jFriedensreich: Does anyone know what “agent tea” is in the second graph? There is a paper about a protocol but it seems a bit obscure to be featured in this context and the other two points on the graph are models.

7rirdnj: > Which is why maintainers feel like they’re drowning.How about actually funding opensource project mantainers? We have non profit orgs, that eat billions of public funds. We spend biilions for influencing hardly measurable metrics, with very nebulous benefits in far distant future.Direct sponsoring of critical projects would have far better and concrete benefits.

gerikson: The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.

DonHopkins: [delayed]

fulafel: Most of free software (incl the BSD stuff) was like that. The bazaar was an attempt to characterise the new new linux style way of doing it.

TeMPOraL: Makes me realize that "Worse is Better" was, in today's terms, apologism for vibe-coding.

TZubiri: It wasnt one thing, gnu is a case of cathedrals. Corps are usually more cathedrally than bazaary because of their hierarchical top down structure, but ymmv, an elon musk or steve jobs company will be more cathedral than a conglomerate like unilever or a google or microsoft