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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: A Reader's Guide

Eric Raymond on open source — hacker culture, Linux, and how communities build software.

Eric S. Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar essays explain open-source development — "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"; release early and often.

Impact

Shaped understanding of Linux, fetchmail case study, corporate OSS adoption.

Who reads

Developers, founders, anyone asking how collaborative code competes with cathedral-style planning.

Foundational tech culture document — still referenced in FOSS debates.

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