Comment The critical review of the key ideas of the book (Score 2) 49
For the critical review of the key ideas of the book see:
http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/second_look_on_the _catb.shtml
Here is the abstarct of the paper:
Although this review is to a certain extent a reaction to publishing of The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (O'Reilly) this paper is to large extent can be considered as a continuation of my paper Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research. One of the important aspects of the first part of my paper was critique of the description of the Open Source software (OSS) as a revolutionary phenomenon and argumentation that it is better should be considered as another form of a scientific community. In this paper I would like to concentrate on the Cathedral and the Bazaar (CatB) itself and try to provide an overview of the weaknesses of the paper (the idea of inapplicability of Brooks' Law, the idea that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", the view of the source code as the best thing after sliced bread, etc.) as well the more coherent demonstration of the fact that that the bazaar metaphor is internally contradictive and that in some parts Linux can be considered belonging to the Cathedral model, while Microsoft can be considered belonging to the Bazaar model. Complex nature and pitfalls of status competition is discussed. Along with critique of CatB views, more objective picture of the status competition in the OSS environment is provided.
Contents
Introduction
Some vulnerabilities of the key ideas of the Cathedral and the Bazaar
Brooks' Law is no longer applicable in the Internet environment
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
Does Linux belongs to the Cathedral model or to the Bazaar model ?
Does OSS development model automatically provide the best results?
What is really new in the Linux development model ?
Idealized description of the status competition in the Internet-based developer communities
Hierarchical structure and corresponding distribution of political power in the OSS environment
The possibility of unfair status hierarchies (favoritism)
Poisoning of the peer review process
The danger of overload and burnout
The fear of exclusion as a motivational factor
The possibility of wrong status achievement lines
The role of the press
- Nikolai Bezroukov
http://www.softpanorama.org/OSS/second_look_on_th
Here is the abstarct of the paper:
Although this review is to a certain extent a reaction to publishing of The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (O'Reilly) this paper is to large extent can be considered as a continuation of my paper Open Source Software Development as a Special Type of Academic Research. One of the important aspects of the first part of my paper was critique of the description of the Open Source software (OSS) as a revolutionary phenomenon and argumentation that it is better should be considered as another form of a scientific community. In this paper I would like to concentrate on the Cathedral and the Bazaar (CatB) itself and try to provide an overview of the weaknesses of the paper (the idea of inapplicability of Brooks' Law, the idea that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", the view of the source code as the best thing after sliced bread, etc.) as well the more coherent demonstration of the fact that that the bazaar metaphor is internally contradictive and that in some parts Linux can be considered belonging to the Cathedral model, while Microsoft can be considered belonging to the Bazaar model. Complex nature and pitfalls of status competition is discussed. Along with critique of CatB views, more objective picture of the status competition in the OSS environment is provided.
Contents
Introduction
Some vulnerabilities of the key ideas of the Cathedral and the Bazaar
Brooks' Law is no longer applicable in the Internet environment
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
Does Linux belongs to the Cathedral model or to the Bazaar model ?
Does OSS development model automatically provide the best results?
What is really new in the Linux development model ?
Idealized description of the status competition in the Internet-based developer communities
Hierarchical structure and corresponding distribution of political power in the OSS environment
The possibility of unfair status hierarchies (favoritism)
Poisoning of the peer review process
The danger of overload and burnout
The fear of exclusion as a motivational factor
The possibility of wrong status achievement lines
The role of the press
- Nikolai Bezroukov
