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). I don't think that the Linux kernel project epitomises "Bazaar"-style of development, it was simply an early example of very distributed development. You can't take that and judge it by rules that it doesn't try to follow in a game that it doesn't try to play.
Real bazaars are more like shopping centres than like that kumbaya idea of let's make a little place for everybody and everybody will be happy. It's not quite like http://www.cinemapassion.com/covers_temp/covers/Les_Calinours_a_vos_souhaits...
Perhaps we could have a walk together to Marché Jean-Talon and contemplate how much of it can be called a Bazaar and then ask the commerçants one by one how much they get charged for just taking up space in the market.
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