Introduction.
In present article we'll consider the phenomenon that spread widely at the
end of the last century and got the name
"open source movement".
Perhaps the first to try to describe and study this phenomenon was
Eric S. Raymond.
He named the way of software design inside this movement "bazaar", thus handing it to
him, we decided to call this cycle of articles "Around the Bazaar".
Unlike Eric Raymond we believe the open source code movement is neither a bazaar nor
any business model, as some people think. We believe, this movement is only a part of a big
historic process, which we tend to call formation of free labor resources.
In the first part of the article, following Eric Raymond, we consider the open
source code movement and hackers as well as
certain independent movements of contemporary society. The second part of the article
deals with the open source movement as a movement of communities of a certain kind,
and includes the classification of existing free resources. In the third part of the
article we make an attempt to define possible ways of managing free resources and
ways of managing communities.
We hope that this article as well as others, will be complimented by Your works.
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