The Magic Cauldron (essay)
Appearance
"The Magic Cauldron" is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on the open-source economic model.[1] It can be read freely online and was published in his 1999 book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.[2]
Contents
The essay analyzes the economic models that Raymond believes can sustain an open-source project in four steps:[3]
- It first analyzes what the author sees as classical myths about the cost refund in software development and tries to present a game-theory based model of the supposed stability of open-source cooperation.
- Secondly, it presents nine theoretical models that would work for sustainable open-source development: two non-profit, seven for-profit.
- Thirdly it states a theory to decide when it is economically interesting for software to remain closed.
- Finally, it examines some mechanisms that, according to Raymond, the market invented to fund for-profit open-source development (like patronage system and task markets).[4]
Publication
- ISBN 978-0-596-00108-7.
- Raymond, Eric S. (6 November 1999). "The Magic Cauldron". Retrieved 21 March 2016.
See also
- Revenge of the Hackers
References
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- "Informationweek, Issues 742-750". InformationWeek (p 75). 1999. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- Brian Jepson, Joan Peckham, Ram Sadasiv (2000). Database application programming with Linux. John Wiley. p. 143. ISBN 9780471355496.
- Fuggetta, Alfonso (2003). "Open source software––an evaluation". Journal of Systems and Software. 66 (1): 85. .
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- Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter (2007). Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture. pp. 21–23. ISBN 978-0415978934.
- Carmichael, Patrick; Leslie Honour (January 2002). "Open Source as appropriate technology for global education". International Journal of Educational Development. 22 (1): 50. .
- Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter (2007). Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software. Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture. pp. 21–23.
- S2CID 250853490.
External links
- Raymond, Eric S. "The Magic Cauldron". The Cathedral and the Bazaar. catb.org. Retrieved 2009-10-14.