On Aug 21, 2007, at 1:32 AM, Chris McCormick wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 02:09:06PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: >> >>> while any pure-data dev can add their code to Pd-extended. You >>> could >>> say we are more Bazaar than Mr. Bazaar because the Pd Bazaar has a >>> hand in the decision making. :D >> >> I think that you're confusing people. «The Cathedral and The >> Buzzword» was >> written by ESR. Linus didn't start the Bazaar theory: ESR came up >> with >> that as observation (and perhaps some imagination). > > ESR's wild imagination is oft lampooned in the comic Everybody Loves > Eris S. Raymond. > > <http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/> > <http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/microsoft-job-offer> > > The end of the "Interests and politics" section of his Wikipedia > page is > quite illuminating: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond> > > In my opinion, his views on race, religion, and politics obscure any > kind of intelligent comments he has made in relation to software. The > Cathedral and The Bazaar is an interesting read, but full of so much > speculative pseudo science that I felt slightly ill after reading it.
Wow, he's a bit off indeed. Thanks for that link. I never was a big fan, that was pretty much the nail in the coffin. .hc > > Best, > > Chris. > > ------------------- > http://mccormick.cx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- There is no way to peace, peace is the way. -A.J. Muste _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
