Eric S. Raymond
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Linux is subversive. I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some theories about software engineering.
Why we picked it
Fetchmail serves as a real-world test of contrasting development models, tying open-source principles to an actual engineering process.
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