[colug-432] Learn How To Scratch Your Own Itch

[Jim Wildman]

The CatB was very useful to me in explaining open source to corporate types (not that I gave
it to them directly).  And I always took it as aruging FOR the GNU style (bazaar) of
development.

I'm not sure Eric was ever representative of anyone other than himself.  But he does have a
way with words and a forceful personality (which lead to the problems you mentioned of
course).

On Fri, 13 May 2016, Rob Funk wrote:

> jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:
>> Read Eric Raymond's writings,
>> starting with "The Cathedral and The Bazaar".
>
> Let's not get too carried away. :-)
>
> The original CatB essay was a late-90s polemic against the GNU style
> of development, and was certainly influential, but I'm not sure it's
> quite applicable today in the way it was intended. (I'm not even sure
> it was relevant at the time in the way it was generally taken.) Some
> of the other essays in the ensuing book may be a bit more relevant,
> but I also think a lot of it was put in to pad out to book-length.
>
> In any case, I'm not sure I'd recommend going much beyond that with
> him; in the last 15 years or so he's become more inclined to
> pronouncements that alienate large portions of the community, to the
> point that he's really not representative anymore.
>
> I'd recommend the multi-author collection "Open Sources: Voices from
> the Open Source Revolution" (which does include an ESR essay, along
> with Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and many more) over anything
> from any single person. But that's dated too.
>
> Here's one modern perspective to consider (which I don't 100% agree
> with, but I don't 100% disagree with either):
>  https://medium.com/@nayafia/i-hate-the-term-open-source-a65fd481
>
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