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| author | Martin Ashby <martin@ashbysoft.com> | 2024-12-21 22:18:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Ashby <martin@ashbysoft.com> | 2024-12-21 22:18:18 +0000 |
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Bump zine 0.3.0 -> 0.8.0
Fix a lot of associated breakage
Fix broken rss.xml file as highlighted to me by Matthijs van der Wild
(thanks!)
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diff --git a/content/posts/2024-03-03-catb.smd b/content/posts/2024-03-03-catb.smd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d620492 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2024-03-03-catb.smd @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +.title = "Book - The Cathedral and the Bazaar", +.author = "Martin Ashby", +.date = @date("2024-03-03T19:31:27Z"), +.layout = "single.shtml", +.custom = {"comments": true}, +.description = "Book review 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'" +--- + +I recently read [The Cathedral and the Bazaar](https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/) by Eric S Raymond. + +It's interesting to get a glimpse into the early history of arguably the most successful open-source software project there has ever been. + +It's also dated somewhat. The author argues that open-source models of software development will overtake closed-source. It's clear today that open-source software has made enormous progress. Linux is more popular than ever. However there remains an _enormous_ amount of closed-source software in the world 25 years later, much of it needlessly so. There is also just an enormous amount of software in general; I'm not sure if Eric in the late 1990s and early 2000s would have predicted just how _central_ the software industry was to become in today's society and how much impact it would have. + +I think the web took off in a way that the author may not have predicted. The other conspicuously absent topic is mobile. Combined I think these have significantly changed how most people consume software, and also how most people buy software. I think the author was correct that a lot of software would change to a subscription model; perhaps what he didn't anticipate is the prevelance of end-users directly making those subscriptions for software for their phones via app stores run by gatekeepers - the latest giant software corporations.
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