Hi, > So now, the Q'n is does FOSS adhere to formal Engineering > practices ? > If not then for what other one or more reasons we should embrace > FOSS ? > Iam raising this Q'n as a responsible Engineer. > Also I can tell that if FOSS donot adhere to any formal > Engineering practices,
Here is the answer from "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" by Eric Steven Raymond I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of the surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the ``cathedral'' model of most of the commercial world versus the ``bazaar'' model of the Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow'', suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software. Read more the book at http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
