The entire point of open source bazaars is they kickass on large cathedrals[1].
Open source is not just about source code being shared. It is a gift culture of sharing[2].
[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
[2] The Bibles about open source from Eric Raymond (the man who invented the term open source), specifically the Magic Cauldron.
Open source is not just about source code being shared. It is a gift culture of sharing[2].
[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/
[2] The Bibles about open source from Eric Raymond (the man who invented the term open source), specifically the Magic Cauldron.
Cathedrals and bazaars are mutually supportive, not antagonistic. Each is well suited for its respective purposes in a positive-sum economy.
One interesting thing about the myth of Ceridwen's magic cauldron is its synchronicity with the peddler's iron cauldron in the stone soup fable.
http://www.nahee.com/spanky/www/fractint/stone_soup.html
(Fractint had an enormous influence on little iCEBREAKER, years before Raymond's allegedly seminal essays.
)Even assuming the iron cauldron is an example of an Inverse Commons, I don't see how it logically supports the position that large cathedrals are mutual supportive of bazaars in sense that the larger and fewer they are the more supportative?
I do see how inverse commons can be shared by those cathedrals which are competing, e.g. IBM funding some open source project, but the more decentralized and finer grained those cathedrals, the faster will be the innovation.
I am so excited about the collapse of the medical industry, and within decades of that we will have innovations that have been stunted for decades such as hopefully a repair for my 90% blind right eye.
Get ready for designer offspring too, e.g. we can already select the gender and eye color. Once the regulation falls away, the options will proliferate.