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Preben Randhol wrote:

> No, it wasn't. You are confusing it with the Bazaar model which is something
> else entirely.

And most people who have read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" prefer the 
Cathedral approach for operating systems kernels (look at Linux) and 
compilers (such as GCC and GNAT).

One person, Linus Torvalds, approves all additions and changes to the 
Linux kernel.  That doesn't mean that the Cathedral model is used fof 
the rest of Linux, in fact there are many developers and teams working 
on the same and different parts of Linux.  But having one kernel chain, 
and controlled releases of new versions allows the rest of Linux to use 
the Bazaar model.

I won't even try to describe the problems with GCC that occured recently 
due to a forking of the compiler development chains, but by the end of 
this year I hope we will all be back to a single gcc chain.

-- 
                                           Robert I. Eachus

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