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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

Book by Eric S. Raymond · 4 quotes · Programming, Hackers, Firsts

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“Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.”

“For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.”

“Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.”