Oh no Udhay: -- [1] for those silklisters who've not heard of Eric Raymond yet, I will pull you down to our level by posting the URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ --
And I had to then inevitably do the what-is-Eric-upto, to land on this: From: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=286 -- Bwahahaha! My sinister master plan for world domination is working. Straight from the pages of the highest-quality general-news magazine in English, check this out! The money 'graf is the last one: Moreover, the ease with which the internet spreads wrong-headedness-to say nothing of lies and slander-is offset by the ease with which it spreads insights and ideas. To regret the glorious fecundity of new media is to choose the hushed reverence of the cathedral over the din of the bazaar. There's an old saw to the effect that there's no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit. More precisely, when your signature memes start showing up as generative metaphors in elite and popular usage with your name stripped off them, you know you're winning. Winning, that is, at the only game that is really interesting - changing the world. (Hat tip to my blogson Walter Hunt over at Stone of Remembrance, though I'd have seen it anyway in my weekly Economist and later did.) -- /me shakes head. Cheerio, M -- Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk at yahoo-inc dt com
