Research and find out what you can about "Cathedral vs the bazaar". Tell me in your own words what it is and why it might be important.
Cathedral vs the Bazaar started as an essay and is now a book by Eric S. Raymond.
Cathedral is a an open code, but is for a limited number of people to play with and fix.
Bazaar is an open code, but anyone can play and fix.
They are both important as fixes can be done relatively quickly and people that really know what they are doing can develop programs quickly.
My question is what about the bad people. They can get in and screw everything up??
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It's hard to get bad people into a development cycle as there is a heirarchy to the system. They could "borrow" the code for themselves and use it for something malicious I suppose. Most of the time all changes to the code are submitted and have to be approved for use by the head hancho's.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good question, the way I think of it is that the "bad people" help to find the problems or back doors in the program and therefore helps to make fixes quicker. Just my 2 cents.
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