MacWeek.com: Open-source sermon at MacHack Jun 23, 2000, 13 :13 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (1400 reads) (Other stories by David Read)
"Open-source software advocate Eric S. Raymond, kicking off the
15th MacHack conference here at midnight with a five-hour keynote speech, had little
to say about the Macintosh, but still managed to raise the hackles of Mac
programmers--at least those who were still awake--with his strong defense of the
open-source business model."
"Raymond, speaking with the zeal of a fundamentalist preacher, suggested that the Mac
hacker culture had different strengths, such as multimedia and GUI expertise, than his
own Linux culture. His goal, he said, was to begin the process of combining the
strengths of both developer cultures to create the best software possible. Raymond was
on stage in Cupertino last year when Apple Computer announced that it would make its
Darwin OS, the core of Mac OS X, available in an open-source version."
"Likening the MacHack crowd to fans at a science-fiction convention, he offered a
reprise of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," a talk, originally delivered at Linux Kongress
97, that many regard as the mission statement for the open-source movement."
