The Cathedral and the Bazaar is a book about cooperation, history, and theory. In the OT archive, this entry is tagged as: cooperation, history, open-source, theory — a shorthand for the kinds of practice and politics it connects to. Beyond the headline: The Cathedral and the Bazaar is included here because it helps imagine technology as something collective — built, maintained, and argued about in public — rather than only as a private product. If you follow the link, you will usually find primary documentation, community governance, or ongoing work that is hard to summarize in a single paragraph. Treat this page as a bookmark and a doorway, not a replacement for reading the source.