Editing The Cathedral and the Bazaar (section)

==Legacy and reception==
In 1998, the essay helped the final push for [[Netscape Communications Corporation]] to release the [[source code]] for [[Netscape Communicator]] and start the [[Mozilla]] project; it was cited by Frank Hecker and other employees as an outside independent validation of his arguments.<ref>{{cite web | title = Epilog: Netscape Embraces the Bazaar | url = http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s13.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution |chapter= Freeing the Source: The Story of Mozilla |author= Jim Hamerly and Tom Paquin with Susan Walton |edition= 1st |date= January 1999 |isbn= 1-56592-582-3 |url= https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781565925823 |quote= Frank had done his homework, citing Eric Raymond's paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," and talking to people in departments throughout the organization--from engineering to marketing to management. |url-access= registration }}</ref><ref>{{citation |title= Interview: Frank Hecker |author= Louis Suárez-Potts |date= 1 May 2001 |publisher= openoffice.org |url= http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/ec1May.html |quote= (Since it always gets mentioned in relation to Netscape's Mozilla decision, I should also note that Eric Raymond's paper "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" was referenced by me and others who were lobbying Netscape's management. In my opinion the paper's importance in the context of Netscape's decision was mainly that it provided some independent validation of ideas that were already being actively discussed and promoted within Netscape. If you've ever tried to promote a proposal within your organization, then you may have discovered that it's somewhat easier to do this if you can point to someone outside the organization who's saying the same thing.)}}</ref> Netscape's public recognition of this influence brought Raymond renown in hacker culture.<ref name="Williams2011">{{cite book|author=Sam Williams|title=Free as in Freedom &#91;Paperback&#93;: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BB68Ql7ZY_AC&pg=PA161|date=30 November 2011|publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc."|isbn=978-1-4493-2464-3|pages=161|quote=When Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale cited Raymond's 'Cathedral and the Bazaar' essay as a major influence upon the company's decision, the company instantly elevated Raymond to the level of hacker celebrity. Determined not to squander the opportunity, Raymond traveled west to deliver interviews, advise Netscape executives, and take part in the eventual party celebrating the publication of Netscape Navigator's source code.}}</ref>

When [[O'Reilly Media]] published the book in 1999 it became one of the first complete, commercially distributed books published under the [[Open Publication License]].<ref name="opl"/>

[[Marshall Poe]], in his essay "The Hive", likens [[Wikipedia]] to the bazaar model that Raymond defines.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Hive |magazine=The Atlantic |first=Marshall |last=Poe |date=September 2006 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/the-hive/305118/|access-date=2012-07-05}}</ref> [[Jimmy Wales]] himself was inspired by the work (as well as arguments put forward in pre-Internet works, such as [[Friedrich Hayek]]'s article "[[The Use of Knowledge in Society]]"), arguing that "It opened my eyes to the possibility of mass collaboration".<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Schiff|first1=Stacy|author-link=Stacy Schiff |title=Annals of Information|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/07/31/060731fa_fact|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=4 July 2014}}</ref>

In 1999 [[Nikolai Bezroukov]] published two critical essays on [[Eric S. Raymond|Eric Raymond's]] views of open source software, the second one called "A second look at ''The Cathedral and the Bazaar''".<ref name="Kurbel2008">{{cite book|author=Karl Eugen Kurbel |title=The Making of Information Systems: Software Engineering and Management in a Globalized World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggVaezlfOCcC&pg=PA222|access-date=15 October 2012|date=23 June 2008 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-540-79260-4 |pages=222–}}</ref><ref>Bezroukov, [https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/696/606 Open source software development as a special type of academic research: Critique of vulgar Raymondism]" Accessed 23 May 2019.</ref><ref>Bezroukov, [https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/708/618 A second look at ''The Cathedral and the Bazaar''] Accessed 23 May 2019.</ref><ref name="BergstraBurgess2007">{{cite book|author1=Jan Bergstra |author2=Mark Burgess |title=Handbook of Network and System Administration |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUoZ7fKOITQC&pg=PA202 |access-date=15 October 2012 |date=19 December 2007 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-0-444-52198-9 |pages=202–}}</ref> They produced a sharp response from Eric Raymond.<ref>Eric S. Raymond, "[http://catb.org/~esr/writings/response-to-bezroukov.html Response to Nikolai Bezroukov]"</ref>

[[Curtis Yarvin]]'s essay "The Cathedral or the Bizarre", which argues for the end of [[American democracy]], is named after the Raymond essay.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yarvin |first1=Curtis |title=The Cathedral or the Bizarre |url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-cathedral-or-the-bizarre |website=Tablet |access-date=13 October 2024}}</ref>