Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 22:00:54 -0500 From: "Pedro Fernando Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Critic to The Cathedral and The Bazaar Message-ID: <37FEAFE6.5393A768@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> References: <37FE1EF1.6544AB38@newsguy.com> <37FE69D9.D0CB3836@softweyr.com>
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Actually, I've never seen nothing revolutionary in ESR's postulates.
Organizations have been very well studied by serious people like Claude
Menard. See my old article in the Daemon News for a reference
(Structuring and Funding Free Software Organizations).
FWIW, Linus also showed Mozilla as an example where opensource simply
didn't work. I think the license also has an influence, but that is just
IMHO :-).
Pedro.
Wes Peters wrote:
>
> "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> >
> > There is an interesting critic to the famous ESR's article at
> > http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html.
> > Interestingly, FreeBSD (and Jordan) is mentioned.
>
> This is quite a good article, with some interesting points to make. For
> instance, I think many in -hackers will find this all too close to the
> target:
>
> Yet little is known about how Internet-based virtual teams (IVT)
> really operate and what problems develop in that sort of cooperation.
> Some evident problems are:
>
> o overload and subsequent burnout of leading developers due to
> excessive load, with significant loss of interest in a
> given product;
> o a conservative approach to architecture (it's really difficult to
> change the architecture of a product after its development has
> started)
> o e-mail based written communication to some degree tends to distort
> meaning and invite fights and flame wars.
>
> Hmm. Sound familiar? This is worth a read for everyone, that's why I've
> emailed this to -chat as well.
>
> --
> "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
>
> Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
> wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
>
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