The Magic Cauldron (essay)
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"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
- Raymond, Eric S. (2001). "The Magic Cauldron". The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Paperback ed.). O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0-596-00108-7. http://oreilly.com/catalog/cathbazpaper/chapter/ch05.html.
- Raymond, Eric S. (6 November 1999). "The Magic Cauldron". http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/magic-cauldron/.
See also
- Revenge of the Hackers
References
- ↑
- The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Wiley-Interscience. 2008. pp. 261–263. ISBN 978-0471799597. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZC7SDyPZUMoC&dq=%22Magic+Cauldron%22+Raymond&pg=PA261.
- "Informationweek, Issues 742-750". InformationWeek (p 75). 1999. https://books.google.com/books?id=qEJVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Magic+Cauldron%22+Raymond. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- Brian Jepson, Joan Peckham, Ram Sadasiv (2000). Database application programming with Linux. John Wiley. p. 143. ISBN 9780471355496. https://books.google.com/books?id=dM5QAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Magic+Cauldron%22+Raymond.
- Fuggetta, Alfonso (2003). "Open source software––an evaluation". Journal of Systems and Software 66 (1): 85. doi:10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00065-1.
- ↑ Baldwin, Carliss Y; Kim Clark (Jul 2006). "The Architecture of Participation: Does Code Architecture Mitigate Free Riding in the Open Source Development Model?". Management Science 52 (7): 1125. doi:10.1287/mnsc.1060.0546.
- ↑
- 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=aYCQAgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Magic+Cauldron%22+Raymond&pg=PT39.
- Carmichael, Patrick; Leslie Honour (January 2002). "Open Source as appropriate technology for global education". International Journal of Educational Development 22 (1): 50. doi:10.1016/S0738-0593(00)00077-8.
- ↑ Bruns, Bryan (2001). "Open sourcing nanotechnology research and development: issues and opportunities". Nanotechnology 12 (3): 198–210. doi:10.1088/0957-4484/12/3/303.
External links
- Raymond, Eric S.. "The Magic Cauldron". The Cathedral and the Bazaar. catb.org. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/magic-cauldron/. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
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