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<p>Every fall when I teach my Mozilla Open Source course at Seneca, one of the essays I begin with is Eric Raymond's "The Cathedral and Bazaar." Written in the mid-1990s, it's not something that a lot of people starting out now have heard about or read. It
also has no knowledge of so many of the modern issues and trends we face in open source and software development. And yet, I continue to find it very helpful in trying to introduce the way of open source to new students. I'm re-reading it now, in preparation
for my lecture this afternoon.</p>
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<p>I wanted to also drop the link here for you, since many of you are thinking seriously about how to effectively run a large open source project. While I don't espouse all of Raymond's approaches or philosophies, but I do think he highlights many, many important
lessons we can learn.</p>
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<p><a id="NoLP" href="http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/578/499">http://www.firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/578/499</a></p>
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<p>If you're looking for something read over lunch hour today, you could do worse than CAB.</p>
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<p>Dave<br>
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