"The Magic Cauldron" is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on the open-source economic model. It can be read freely online and was published in his 1999 book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Contents
The essay analyzes the economic models that Raymond believes can sustain an open-source project in four steps:
- 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).
Publication
- Raymond, Eric S. (2001). "The Magic Cauldron". The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Paperback ed.). O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0-596-00108-7.
- Raymond, Eric S. (6 November 1999). "The Magic Cauldron". Retrieved 21 March 2016.
See also
References
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- Himma, Kenneth E.; Tavani, Herman T., eds. (2008). The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Wiley-Interscience. pp. 261–263. ISBN 978-0471799597.
- "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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.107.9214. 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.
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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. 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. S2CID 250853490.
External links
- Raymond, Eric S. "The Magic Cauldron". The Cathedral and the Bazaar. catb.org. Retrieved 2009-10-14.
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