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The Cathedral and The Bazaar

If I do a search on Google on "Cathedral" and "Bazaar" I am totally convinced that at least half of the hits on the first list page will refer to this book. Empirical test: result? Totally correct.

Title: The Cathedral and The Bazaar
Author: Eric S Raymond 
Publisher: Nya Doxa (I read it in Swedish)
ISBN: 91-578-0377-3

Reviewing this book feels kind of unnecessary. If you are looking for a good book advocating the pros of the open source movement and the background on the hacker community this is it.

After reading this book you will be convinced that open source and collaborative efforts based on meritocracy are the most important means of competition in the Internet oriented future. ;) Until you sober up anyway.

Eric Raymond is a good writer and in this book he has collected some of his writings which act as a foundation for a lot of continuously ongoing discussions  regarding the pros and cons of open source.

Check out the homepage for arguments, updates and comments.

Posted by manne at May 15, 2003 01:03 AM | TrackBack

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