:BW: Landmark Open Source Manifesto To Be Published
BW: Landmark Open Source Manifesto To Be Published Sep 20, 1999, 20 :55 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (6833 reads)
"He calls himself an accidental revolutionary. Or an open source software evangelist. Salon Magazine called him a "hacker
guru".
"But everyone agrees that his cataclysmic work "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" was the shot heard around the world. It catapulted Netscape into releasing their browser as open source, put
Linus Torvalds on the cover of Forbes Magazine and Microsoft on the defensive, and helped Linux to rock the world of commercial software. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is the manifesto
of the Open Source revolution."
"Eric S. Raymond, the author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", defines the Open Source movement and challenges both Open Source developers and business executives to take a hard look
at the business consequences of the Internet."
