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<blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 406515" data-attributes="member: 2673">I have another example that more clearly falls on the L/C axis.&nbsp; It is the open source versus closed source models for developing software.&nbsp; An excellent piece desribing this analogy is Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/" target="_blank">http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/</a>Essentially, the Cathedral is the lawful way of doing things.&nbsp; There is a clear heirarchy, and the programmers are split into groups that each have a specific task.&nbsp; This is how software is written at proprietary companys, like Microsoft, Apple (until OS X), and Oracle.&nbsp; It was long considered the right way to do things and the only way to effectively write large software projects.The Bazaar is the chaotic method.&nbsp; This is systems like GNU/Linux and BSD.&nbsp; The programs are written by people all over the world, often working in opposite directions, having different philosophies, repeating each others work, and each developer working on what they personally find interesting.&nbsp; Each project generally has a 'benevelant dictator', but in almost all cases the programmers are volunteers and the dictator has no power to enforce his will on the underlings except personal loyalty.Amazingly, the bazaar is at least as effective in writing software as the cathedral.&nbsp; By taking pieces put together by independant groups across the world, companies like Red Hat or Mandrake release fully functional, stable, secure, flexible operating systems.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="maddman75, post: 406515, member: 2673"] I have another example that more clearly falls on the L/C axis. It is the open source versus closed source models for developing software. An excellent piece desribing this analogy is Eric Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar. [url]http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/[/url] Essentially, the Cathedral is the lawful way of doing things. There is a clear heirarchy, and the programmers are split into groups that each have a specific task. This is how software is written at proprietary companys, like Microsoft, Apple (until OS X), and Oracle. It was long considered the right way to do things and the only way to effectively write large software projects. The Bazaar is the chaotic method. This is systems like GNU/Linux and BSD. The programs are written by people all over the world, often working in opposite directions, having different philosophies, repeating each others work, and each developer working on what they personally find interesting. Each project generally has a 'benevelant dictator', but in almost all cases the programmers are volunteers and the dictator has no power to enforce his will on the underlings except personal loyalty. Amazingly, the bazaar is at least as effective in writing software as the cathedral. By taking pieces put together by independant groups across the world, companies like Red Hat or Mandrake release fully functional, stable, secure, flexible operating systems. [/QUOTE]

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