Taking Public Policy out of the Cathedral and into the Bazaar

Cathedral and Bazaar by Carmelita Levin

For the non-engineers reading this, a quick explanation: Once upon a time, software was created by coding wizards in ivory towers, who would carefully prepare major software releases, having only trained testers examine them, before with some small fanfare allowing users to purchase the results. As you might imagine, software releases tended to suffer from unexpected bugs when running…