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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated CatB) is an essay, and later a book, by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. It examines the struggle between top-down and bottom-up design. The essay was first presented by Raymond at the Linux Kongress on May 27, 1997 in Würzburg (Germany) and was published as the second chapter of the same‑titled book in 1999. The illustration on the cover of the book is a 1913 painting by Lyubov Popova titled Composition with Figures and belongs to the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery.[1] The book was released under the Open Publication License v2.0 in 1999.[2] The essay contrasts two different free software development models: The essay's central thesis is Raymond's proposition that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (which he terms

The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1990s software development essay and book by Eric S. Raymond The Cathedral and the Bazaar Cover of the paperback compendium edition Author Eric S. Raymond Publisher O'Reilly Media Publication date 1999 Pages 241 ISBN 1-565-92724-9 Dewey Decimal 005.4/32 21 Library of Congress Classification</span>"}]]}'>LC Class QA76.76.O63 R396 1999 Website www .catb .org /~esr /writings /cathedral-bazaar / The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (abbreviated Cat

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