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Comment by Sharlin

6 hours ago

> there’s now an entire generation of coders who have never seen a world where "everything" is open-source and developed in the bazaar style

(Sorry, accidentally negated my meaning there, what I meant is that they have only seen this current world. Or never seen a world where it isn't the case, to use a confusing double negation.)

> "everything" is open-source and developed in the bazaar style

A lot of stuff isn't. It may be open source, but the number of contributors is small and many large projects are cathedrals with people volunteering to lay some stones. The large projects often have core teams who organise and manage it, but then accept some contributions. It's closer to the organised Cathedral, than the chaotic Bazaar.