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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Bob Young, Eric S. Raymond
4.0
The book is an exploration into the world of Open Source, and the culture that goes with it. It goes beyond the definitions and the initial perception and instead gives an inside view of a universe of hackers, magic cauldrons, bazaars and John Locke.
Open Source is nothing more than a development methodology, with its own sets of rules and principles. The difference from other methodologies is that the developers are not working in close approximation to each other. They are exclusively communicating through the internet. Though for some reason Open Source has become so much more. It is something more resembling a dogmatic approach to software development that by shear force of nature gathers engaged communities, tying them together tighter than most other communities, and included with them are their own social hierarchies formed based on recognition for produced work.
These communities are together creating a digital noosphere. Places where ideas and systems and ideas of systems, mingle and crash together to make free and open software. This cultural phenomenon is enabled by the developed connectedness that has come with the internet. In its early days in the 70s- with ARPANET, through the 80s and into the crazy 90s where Open Source became into its own as a great force for both disruption and innovation.
I think that open source will be more prevalent in the future, and this book is a great introduction into, the all too frequently used as a buzzword, Open Source. The book is interesting for anyone how is inclined to delve deeper into the world of Open Source, and it will give you a deeper perspective than usually comes when new technology is explained to the uninitiated.
Open Source is nothing more than a development methodology, with its own sets of rules and principles. The difference from other methodologies is that the developers are not working in close approximation to each other. They are exclusively communicating through the internet. Though for some reason Open Source has become so much more. It is something more resembling a dogmatic approach to software development that by shear force of nature gathers engaged communities, tying them together tighter than most other communities, and included with them are their own social hierarchies formed based on recognition for produced work.
These communities are together creating a digital noosphere. Places where ideas and systems and ideas of systems, mingle and crash together to make free and open software. This cultural phenomenon is enabled by the developed connectedness that has come with the internet. In its early days in the 70s- with ARPANET, through the 80s and into the crazy 90s where Open Source became into its own as a great force for both disruption and innovation.
I think that open source will be more prevalent in the future, and this book is a great introduction into, the all too frequently used as a buzzword, Open Source. The book is interesting for anyone how is inclined to delve deeper into the world of Open Source, and it will give you a deeper perspective than usually comes when new technology is explained to the uninitiated.