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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.
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That's a great point. There's a use for "here's a giant list of every possible option", but that's as an appendix to "how to use this thing!"
Excellent article overall, but I take objection to this part:
Eric S. Raymond, in his essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar, compares the difference between proprietary software and open source development styles to, as the title suggests, a cathedral and a bazaar.
In fact, Raymond talked about GNU Emacs core development as an example of the "cathedral" style. Although open source software is often developed with a "bazaar" approach, it's not necessarily true. Google's Android platform is an excellent example.