The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Open-source software development

The internet’s connective tissue is built with free and open-source software. Data centers run various Linux distributions. You can browse the web with Mozilla Firefox. It’s highly likely your company stores data in one of many open-source databases such as Postgres and MySQL. Maybe you have Lucene indexes served up in a distributed cluster by Solr. When you reflect on what you can download and use for free while also receiving continual updates from skilled engineers that contribute to a ...