Comment by jonstewart

Well, very clearly "The Right Thing" (i.e., MIT school) is the approach used when building a cathedral and I don't think it's that far of a leap (especially, anyone who could read this essay in 1999 was intimately familiar with the Cold War, in part a struggle of planned economies vs market economies, and there's a bit of The End of History triumphalism here).

The cathedral and the bazaar may be a memorable metaphor, but the essential ideas (rationalism vs empiricism) are ancient.