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The Cathedral and the Bazaar Summary & Review: Let Many Eyeballs Find the Bugs
The Cathedral and the Bazaar summary: treat users as co-developers and release early so bugs get shallow — plus a 7-day plan…
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Eric S. Raymond
"Programmer · fetchmail, open source, and Linus’s Law"
American programmer and open-source advocate who ran fetchmail in public and wrote The Cathedral and the Bazaar so other teams could steal Linux’s many-eyed method.
1 book·Open source, Linux & bazaar development
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Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
Linus’s Law
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow — if the increment is actually visible.
Users as co-developers
Testers are the cheapest path to better code. Treat them as colleagues, not an audience.
Use value vs sale value
Fund in the open the tools you must run even if you cannot sell the bits.
Notable Quotes
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."— The Cathedral and the Bazaar
"Release early. Release often."— The Cathedral and the Bazaar
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar Summary & Review: Let Many Eyeballs Find the Bugs
The Cathedral and the Bazaar summary: treat users as co-developers and release early so bugs get shallow — plus a 7-day plan to run one bazaar this week.