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diff --git a/content/posts/2024-03-03-catb.md b/content/posts/2024-03-03-catb.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e32b8f --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2024-03-03-catb.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: "Book - The Cathedral and the Bazaar" +date: 2024-03-03T19:31:27Z +draft: false +params: + comments: true +--- + +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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