N-gated Hacker NewsApr 4
In 1998, we had the Cathedral and the Bazaar; now we add the Winchester Mystery House to our list of confusing metaphors 🤔🔍. This piece wobbles on like a software house of horrors—too much jargon, not enough sense. Can someone please tell these writers that more isn't always more? 🙄🏠
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html #CathedralAndBazaar #WinchesterMysteryHouse #SoftwareMetaphors #TechJargon #ConfusingWriting #HackerNews #ngated
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House

Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.

Drew Breunig
LINUXexpert.orgOct 1, 2025

🏰 The Cathedral has eaten the Bazaar.
Corporate acquisitions, license shifts, and platform lock-in have centralized what was once open and free. Open source is still alive—but less accessible than ever.

New essay: When the Cathedral Ate the Bazaar
đź”— https://linuxexpert.org/cathedral-ate-the-bazaar

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #CathedralAndBazaar

When the Cathedral Ate the Bazaar: How Corporate Power Consumed Open Source - LINUXexpert

Open source once thrived in the bazaar, but corporate consolidation, license changes, and platform lock-in have turned it into a cathedral. See how companies like IBM, Microsoft, HashiCorp, and Redis reshaped the ecosystem.

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LINUXexpert.orgJul 28, 2024

In 1997, Eric S. Raymond penned a seminal essay titled “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” which profoundly influenced the open-source software movement. How well do Raymond’s ideas hold up in the context of 2024’s open-source landscape?

https://linuxexpert.org/the-cathedral-and-the-bazaar-reflections-on-its-relevance-in-2024/

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Reflections on its Relevance in 2024

In 1997, Eric S. Raymond penned a seminal essay titled “The Cathedral and the Bazaar,” which profoundly influenced the open-source software movement. The essay compared two distinct development models: the “Cathedral” model, characterized by tight control and centralized development, and the “Bazaar” model, typified by decentralized, collaborative, and open processes. Over two decades later, this […]

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Markus Feilner (has moved)Dec 18, 2022

#feilnerism

Any approach based on centralized control is not scalable and thus will fail.

The biggest problem with #AI and similar technologies (#Metaverse, social networks, infrastructure) is that they are not federated and dezentralized.

They are not suitable anymore for this industrial revolution that we see happening. Decentralized, people-run, non-profit-oriented stuff is the new hot stuff.
#CathedralAndBazaar anybody?