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title: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
date: "2001-02-11T12:00:00Z"
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description: I'm sharing an update to Eric S. Raymond's seminal essay on open-source software development models. It contrasts the top-down 'cathedral' approach with the collaborative 'bazaar' style that powered the Linux kernel's rapid growth.
keywords: [open source, software engineering, eric s. raymond, cathedral and the bazaar, linux, bazaar model]
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Eric has updated [The Cathedral & the Bazaar](http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/)