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

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

I think that CatB could be used to argue for either, depending on your
perspective.

At any rate, it boils down to whether managemnt looks at the devlopment
team as drones/commodities (like assembly line workers), then cathedral
style is probably suitable.  Or as unique talents (like TV/radio
personalities), then bazaar style si probably suitable.  I suspect that
trying to get a management team that is not inclined in a particular
direction to go that direction is challenging on a number of fronts.

Regards,

-Roberto

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:17:28AM -0400, Jim Wildman wrote:
> 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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