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On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:10 +0000, Jondavey wrote: > Hello list, I've got a copy of "The Cathedral & The Bazaar" by > Eric.S.Raymond. I havn't realy found much of interest in this book for me > but I've heard that some people rate it. It's somewhat historical now, I suspect, so anyone younger coming to it in the mid noughties might not grok it. But it was influential in forming "the movement" in its original form - oh, what, must be a decade back now - before it got made into mashed dead tree. Which doesn't mean that the points about structure and intellectual progress have been made irrelevant - and with the corporates increasingly using US military force to impose their monopolisation via globalisation (i.e. the process by which the predator class gains more and more wealth at the expense of the global population and environment via the con job of "free markets") the disfunctional nature of conventional management is more evident to those not cowed into self-delusion or those who have suffered the effects of weapons of mass distraction. Put yourself back into the early part of the 90s and then re-read it and I think it will make more sense than looking at it with today's eyes, where anyone around OS stuff would have imbibed a lot of the approaches into their mental deep structures. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html