The Cathedral & the Bazaar

Table of contents

1. Dedication
2. Foreword
3. Preface: Why You Should Care
   1. Revision Notes for the Second Edition
4. 1. A Brief History of Hackerdom
   1. Prologue: The Real Programmers
   2. The Early Hackers
   3. The Rise of Unix
   4. The End of Elder Days
   5. The Proprietary-Unix Era
   6. The Early Free Unixes
   7. The Great Web Explosion
5. 2. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
   1. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
   2. The Mail Must Get Through
   3. The Importance of Having Users
   4. Release Early, Release Often
   5. How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity
   6. When Is a Rose Not a Rose?
   7. Popclient becomes Fetchmail
   8. Fetchmail Grows Up
   9. A Few More Lessons from Fetchmail
   10. Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
   11. The Social Context of Open-Source Software
   12. On Management and the Maginot Line
   13. Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar
6. 3. Homesteading the Noosphere
   1. An Introductory Contradiction
   2. The Varieties of Hacker Ideology
   3. Promiscuous Theory, Puritan Practice
   4. Ownership and Open Source
   5. Locke and Land Title
   6. The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture
   7. The Joy of Hacking
   8. The Many Faces of Reputation
   9. Ownership Rights and Reputation Incentives
   10. The Problem of Ego
   11. The Value of Humility
   12. Global Implications of the Reputation-Game Model
   13. How Fine a Gift?
   14. Noospheric Property and the Ethology of Territory
   15. Causes of Conflict
   16. Project Structures and Ownership
   17. Conflict and Conflict Resolution
   18. Acculturation Mechanisms and the Link to Academia
   19. Gift Outcompetes Exchange
   20. Conclusion: From Custom to Customary Law
   21. Questions for Further Research
7. 4. The Magic Cauldron
   1. Indistinguishable From Magic
   2. Beyond Geeks Bearing Gifts
   3. The Manufacturing Delusion
   4. The “Information Wants to be Free” Myth
   5. The Inverse Commons
   6. Reasons for Closing Source
   7. Use-Value Funding Models
      1. The Apache Case: Cost-Sharing
      2. The Cisco Case: Risk-Spreading
   8. Why Sale Value is Problematic
   9. Indirect Sale-Value Models
      1. Loss-Leader/Market Positioner
      2. Widget Frosting
      3. Give Away the Recipe, Open a Restaurant
      4. Accessorizing
      5. Free the Future, Sell the Present
      6. Free the Software, Sell the Brand
      7. Free the Software, Sell the Content
   10. When to be Open, When to be Closed
       1. What Are the Payoffs?
       2. How Do They Interact?
       3. Doom: A Case Study
       4. Knowing When to Let Go
   11. Open Source as a Strategic Weapon
       1. Cost-sharing as a competitive weapon
       2. Resetting the competition
       3. Growing the pond
       4. Preventing a choke hold
   12. Open Source and Strategic Business Risk
   13. The Business Ecology of Open Source
   14. Coping with Success
   15. Open R&D and the Reinvention of Patronage
   16. Getting There From Here
   17. Conclusion: Life after the Revolution
   18. Afterword: Why Closing a Drivers Loses Its Vendor Money
8. 5. Revenge of the Hackers
   1. Revenge of the Hackers
   2. Beyond Brooks’s Law
   3. Memes and Mythmaking
   4. The Road to Mountain View
   5. The Origins of “Open Source”
      1. Forget Bottom-Up; Work on Top-Down
      2. Linux is Our Best Demonstration Case
      3. Capture the Fortune 500
      4. Co-opt the Prestige Media that Serve the Fortune 500
      5. Educate Hackers in Guerrilla Marketing Tactics
      6. Use the Open Source Certification Mark to Keep Things Pure
   6. The Accidental Revolutionary
   7. Phases of the Campaign
   8. The Facts on the Ground
   9. Into the Future
9. 6. Afterword: Beyond Software?
10. A. How to Become a Hacker
    1. Why This Document?
    2. What Is a Hacker?
    3. The Hacker Attitude
    4. Basic Hacking Skills
    5. Status in the Hacker Culture
    6. The Hacker/Nerd Connection
    7. Points For Style
    8. Other Resources
    9. Frequently Asked Questions
11. B. Statistical Trends in the Fetchmail Project’s Growth
12. C. Notes, Bibliography, and Acknowledgements
    1. A Brief History of Hackerdom
       1. Notes
          1. Note 1
          2. Note 2
          3. Note 3
    2. The Cathedral and the Bazaar
       1. Notes
          1. Note 4
          2. Note 5
          3. Note 6
          4. Note 7
          5. Note 8
          6. Note 9
          7. Note 10
          8. Note 11
          9. Note 12
          10. Note 13
       2. Bibliography
       3. Acknowledgements
    3. Homesteading the Noosphere
       1. Notes
          1. Note 14
          2. Note 15
          3. Note 16
          4. Note 17
          5. Note 18
          6. Note 19
          7. Note 20
          8. Note 21
          9. Note 22
          10. Note 23
          11. Note 24
          12. Note 25
       2. Bibliography
          1. Note 26
          2. Note 27
          3. Note 28
          4. Note 29
          5. Note 30
       3. Acknowledgements
    4. The Magic Cauldron
       1. Notes
          1. Note 31
          2. Note 32
          3. Note 33
          4. Note 34
          5. Note 35
       2. Bibliography
          1. Note 36
          2. Note 37
          3. Note 38
       3. Acknowledgements
    5. For Further Reading:
13. Index
14. Colophon
15. Copyright