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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The essay that explained open source to the world. How decentralised collaboration beats centralised design.
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Open-source advocate whose 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar gave Netscape the framework to release Mozilla's source code, sparking the dotcom-era open-source wave. Maintainer of the Jargon File since 1990.
Visit catb.org/~esr →The essay that explained open source to the world. How decentralised collaboration beats centralised design.