A review by arunaugustine
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond

3.0

Amazing book on why the open source model works, supported by frameworks more than: software is supposed to be free ideology. Gives insight into the hacker culture which is anthropologically mapped to "gift culture" where status is earned by what you contribute to the community rather than what you own which other's don't have. Overall offers an alternative view to life from the vantage point of hackers (just to be clear not crackers: who try to search for security vulnerabilities in systems and exploit them. The author compares them to guys who knows how to hotwire a car vs a an automotive engineer (more like hacker).