The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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Table of Contents

Introduction

A Brief History of Hackerdom

• Prologue: The Real Programmers
• The Early Hackers
• The Rise of Unix
• The End of Elder Days
• The Proprietary-Unix Era
• The Early Free Unixes
• The Great Web Explosion
• Bibliography

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• The Mail Must Get Through
• The Importance of Having Users
• Release Early, Release Often
• How Many Eyeballs Tame Complexity
• When Is a Rose Not a Rose?
• Popclient becomes Fetchmail
• Fetchmail Grows Up
• A Few More Lessons from Fetchmail
• Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
• The Social Context of Open-Source Software
• On Management and the Maginot Line
• Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar
• Notes
• Bibliography

Homesteading the Noosphere

• An Introductory Contradiction
• The Varieties of Hacker Ideology
• Promiscuous Theory, Puritan Practice
• Ownership and Open Source
• Locke and Land Title
• The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture
• The Joy of Hacking
• The Many Faces of Reputation
• Ownership Rights and Reputation Incentives
• The Problem of Ego
• The Value of Humility
• Global Implications of the Reputation-Game Model
• How Fine a Gift?
• Noospheric Property and the Ethology of Territory
• Causes of Conflict
• Project Structures and Ownership
• Conflict and Conflict Resolution
• Acculturation Mechanisms and the Link to Academia
• Gift Outcompetes Exchange
• Conclusion: From Custom to Customary Law
• Questions for Further Research
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements

The Magic Cauldron

• Indistinguishable From Magic
• Beyond Geeks Bearing Gifts
• The Manufacturing Delusion
• The "Information Wants to be Free" Myth
• The Inverse Commons
• Reasons for Closing Source
• Use-Value Funding Models
• Why Sale Value is Problematic
• Indirect Sale-Value Models
• When to be Open, When to be Closed
• Open Source as a Strategic Weapon
• Open Source as a Strategic Business Risk
• The Business Ecology of Open Source
• Coping with Success
• Open R&D and the Reinvention of Patronage
• Getting There From Here
• Conclusion: Life after the Revolution
• Afterword: Why Closing a Driver Loses Its Vendor Money
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements

Revenge of the Hackers

• Revenge of the Hackers
• Beyond Brooks's Law
• Memes and Mythmaking
• The Road to Mountain View
• The Origins of 'Open Source'
• The Accidental Revolutionary
• Phases of the Campaign
• The Facts on the Ground
• Into the Future

Afterword

• Author's Afterword