Patrick Cooney's Weblog

2003-11-14

Just finished reading Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It is an interesting book, although it left me scratching my head in a few places.

The good points: nice intro to the open source world for outsiders, interesting commentary on revenue models for software (open and closed source), great points about the software development process (e.g. ship early, ship often, and hopefully deliver enough functionality to not piss people off too much).

The bad points: The open source movement are the only people to understand the N² problem? Microsoft bashing, general smack-talking about the quality of open-source compared to closed-source software.

I'm underweight on Raymond, but I'm not asking for my money back.

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