> I can recommend you to read the book (not just the article) 'the
> cathedral and the bazaar' (It is available as free download!).

Available here from (the author) Eric Raymond's  site

        http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

A (would be?) rebuttal of the Bazaar model

        http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/

Of this, the author says

        "If you think reading a ludicrously bad critique might be 
entertaining,
       see Nikolai Bezroukov's paper in First Monday. There is a link 
to it in my response.

            -> 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/response-to-bezroukov.html


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A comment by Eric Raymond is worth including here NOT for its 
political content per se but to assure those who feel that Open Source 
software is necessarily some form of communist plot:        [ ? :-) 
? ]

    "In fact, I find the imputation of Marxism deeply and personally 
offensive as well as untrue. While I have made a point of not 
gratuitously waving my politics around in my papers, it is no secret 
in the open-source world that I am a libertarian, a friend of the free 
market, and implacably hostile to all forms of Marxism and socialism 
(which I regard as coequal in evil with Naziism)."



                RM

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