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Around the Bazaar

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Around the Bazaar
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Alexey Nechayev, Viktor Petukhov.
January, 2001
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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The Bazaar
The Bazaar is a style of software development leaving source code open, accepted by a community of software programmers with non-predefined structure and the number of members.
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Hackers
A collective image of members of hackers community, who develop open source software and work in the bazaar style, according to Eric Raymond.
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The Gift
Gift is a system of relations that allows access to bound resources
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