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If you are really interested in the orthogonality {is this a word?] of the cathedral and bazaar style software development styles to open source versus proprietary licensing terms try this paper by Nikolai Bezroukov
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/
in particular the section that asks "Does Linux belongs to the Cathedral model or to the Bazaar model?"
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@n...]
Sent: Mon 7/8/2002 3:13 AM
To: 'John Cowan'; 'Uche Ogbuji'
Cc: 'Thomas B. Passin'; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE: XQuery and DTD/Schema?
> Just a bit of meme-hunting: the term "Cathedral" originally
> referred to a different kind of open-source development, as
> formerly used by gcc, and currently by the GNU Hurd and the
> BSD teams: development by a small, fairly closed team, with
> open-source releases but relatively little public input to the code.
Thanks, I didn't know that. It well describes the way Saxon is
developed, which works extremely well on a project of that sort of size.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@n...
work: Michael.Kay@s...
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