MAREYAHH’S Weblog

See?  Most of the people who have contributed to the success of this World Class OS, Linux, are mostly HACKERS scattered around the planet…

Certainly not I. By the time Linux swam onto my radar screen in early 1993, I had already been involved in Unix and open-source development for ten years. I was one of the first GNU contributors in the mid-1980s. I had released a good deal of open-source software onto the net, developing or co-developing several programs (nethack, Emacs’s VC and GUD modes, xlife, and others) that are still in wide use today. I thought I knew how it was done.

My professors from benile actually taught us the open-source thingy and how stupid of me to think that this thing didnt exist in the past

AND HERE COMES THE BIG QUESTION… WHY WSS THIS NAMED AS CATHEDRAL AND THE BAZAAR? Well because Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity—came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who’d take submissions from anyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.

For me it was like wore of a bazaar where everything you needed was there… Different kinds of stuff, agendas, ideas made available by different people and it is just up to you on how to consume it.. EVERYONE COULD CONTRIBUTE>> MORE LIKE AN OPEN SOURCE THINGY in building up an app or software rather than building everything from scratch and with no help or maybe help from a few people rather than consuming the ideas shared to you by others of millions of people… Open source is such a great thing because you learn and help others in the process. You help enrich the apps or codes of others and at the same time helping people seek for the codes they needed to run their own programs..

By mid-1996 I thought I was beginning to understand. Chance handed me a perfect way to test my theory, in the form of an open-source project that I could consciously try to run in the bazaar style. So I did—and it was a significant success.

See? So he is like pointing out the things I have mentioned earlier.. YEY! We are on the same page!