In The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond recounts the early years of Linux. Specifically questioning how the “part-time hacking of several thousands of developers scattered all over the planet” could create perhaps the most complex, functioning application in history. How could a “babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches” coalesce into a coherent and stable system without some form of centralized planning? The fact that this bazaar style seemed to work, and work well, ...
