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InternetNews: Microsoft Not a Cathedral; Open Source Not a Bazaar

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Sean Michael Kerner
Mar 22, 2007

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“Abrams argued that Microsoft is not the cathedral when it comes
to ASP.NET AJAX but is quite transparent. Furthermore, he stated
that most successful open source efforts are backed by a commercial
vendor, making them less bazaar than they claim to be.”

“I’m not sure the bazaar analogy works,” Abrams said. “Neither
cathedral nor bazaar are the same in the AJAX Web space; rather
there is a continuum that reaches across space.”

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