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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.”

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

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

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