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Research and find out what you can about “Cathedral and the Bizarre”. Tell me in your own words what it is and why it might be important.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar was written by Eric S. Raymond as an essay. It’s about two different programming methods: the Cathedral method and the Bazaar method.
The Cathedral method of development is confined to a closed group of developers. Code is available with each software release but the code that is developed between releases is only available to the closed group of developers.
In the Bazaar method, which sounds ‘Bizarre’, code is available to everyone over the Internet. The idea being that the more people that see the code, the faster bugs will be discovered and fixed.
It’s important because Raymond call it Linus’s Law after Linus Torvalds and the inventor of the Bizarre method of Open source programming.
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