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• cathedral n.,adj. [see bazaar for derivation] The `classical' mode of software engineering long thought to be necessarily implied by Brooks's Law.
  Features small teams, tight project control, and long release intervals....
• Brooks's Law prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• Mongolian Hordes technique n. [poss. from the Sixties counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public orgy] Development by gang bang.
  Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers are being put on a job better performed by a few skilled ones (but see bazaar)....
• In fact, I think Linus's [= Linus Torvalds'] cleverest and most consequential hack was not the construction of the Linux kernel itself, but rather his invention of the Linux development model.
  When I expressed this opinion in his presence once, he smiled and quietly repeated something he has often said...
• Brief History Of Linux (#28) Free, Open, Libre, Whatever Software Eric S.
  Raymond's now famous paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar", set the stage for the lucrative business of giving software away....
• Infinite-Monkey Theorem n. "If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
  (One may also hypothesize a small number of monkeys and a very long period of time....
• Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
  The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
• Brief History Of Linux (#29) "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is credited by many (especially ESR himself) as the reason Netscape announced January 22, 1998 the release of the Mozilla source code.
  In addition, Rob Malda of Slashdot has also received praise because he had recently published an editorial ("Give us the damn source code so we can fix Netscape's problems ourselves!...
• New Linux Companies Hope To Get Rich Quick (#3) In the "Cathedral and the Bazaar", ESR mentions that one motivation behind Open Source software is ego-gratification.
  That's where OpenEgo, Inc. comes in. For a fee, the hackers at OpenEgo will produce a piece of Open Source software and distribute it in your name, thus building up your reputation and ego....