Josh Bressers @joshbressers@infosec.exchange
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I wrote a blog about some thoughts I had on modern day

There used to be the Cathedral and the Bazaar, but now we have Megachurches also

If we look at many of the things that started out in the Bazaar but got big and needed infrastructure, they didn't build cathedrals, they built megachurches

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The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar

If you’re of a certain age, you probably remember the essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The TL;DR was that old open source was the cathedral of exclusive developers and groups. Then the Bazaar showed up (which was the Linux Kernel for example) and that freed us from the shackles of the cathedral. Except if we look at how things evolved, it wasn’t actually a bazaar. It was a bunch of roadside churches that are now megachurches. But there is still a bazaar, and it’s holding up our modern infrastructure.

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