The Magic Cauldron

Having Open source software available is indeed very helpful for people who are not that “pro” when it comes to programming and this chapter explain its significance for the public to realize the benefits Open source have brought us. If you just only knew basic things but have the willingness to get things on your way, open source might be the thing that you need. What you need to do is slice the codes and analyze them so that the codes will fit into your system very well. The author also reveals that he’s sorting out new ideas and analyses for the programmers who are developing systems.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Afterword

There are many things in this world left unanswered and get people confused. Like this chapter is trying to inform us, Open source software have many problems remain unsolved and not all things have been compromised. The fact that open resource software creates many sorts of work and different kind of intellectual property, there will always be questions and inquiries about the real “things” about the open source software. This is the last chapter of this book and as I have said, questions for open source software remained unsolved. The author of this book anticipated the movement boost of the open source software. Though his anticipation is not so exact, having predicted that within 2003-2005, the open source movement will be popular is a great achievement for him. Today, there are many open source software available for public use in the web. They are easy to use and can benefit the people who are not so good in programming. It is widely use and the open source software have been helping many people today as far as I have observed.

The Revenge of the Hackers

If hacking today is crime, then most people who use the worldwide web would be culprits for the crime. Open source erupted in the mainstream of 1998. It is said to be the revenge of the hackers after 20 years of relegating an unimportant or powerless position within the society. The author of this chapter narrates the history of hacker Dom which was in 1996. He was very much interested about the Hacker’s culture that made him popular for being the hacker’s cultural historian. He also thinks of himself as such because it is somewhat true because he was always fascinated by their culture and he actually liked being known as such. He is continuing his role as the “historian” of the culture of the Hackers.

Cathedral and the bazaar

It is basically the introduction of the main book. It explains the title of the book and why it is like that. Linux has always been doing different approaches for the software but the author stated that he is trying to find out other ways and means for him to experience a new and different approach because he’s been studying Linux for a long time now. He also stated that the approaches and the agendas of Linux is sort of bazaar because of the different things they do. The author’s work and Linux have different approaches and yet, he stated that the latter is a good software.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – A Brief History of Hackerdom

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – A Brief History of Hackerdom

A brief history of Hackerdom is the second chapter of the Cathedral and the Bazaar which tells us about the brief explanation about the Hackerdom’s history. Hackerdom for me means a kingdom of hackers ruled by the a king hacker and a queen hacker. hahah! Just kidding. To tell you honestly, for me, hackerdom is all about people who love challenges. They love hacking per se. Before, There’s no such thing called hackers. Even the term “programmer” was not existing until the 1980’s. Programmers before usually had a background in engineering or physics. Hackers were born because of the rise of interactive computing. Now, hackers are now building their own kingdom with an open-source culture.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Homesteading the Noosphere

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Homesteading the Noosphere

this chapter is all about going inside the minds of the people. To be specific, they are called hackers. This chapter explains how how the customs(an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting and safeguarding customs duties and for controlling the flow of goods including animals, personal effects and hazardous items in and out of a country.) control the open-source softwares.The people can change as well as the hackers’ minds. When we start change, we should make sure that we are doing change for good. If hackers have a good intention of creating softwares, then we shouldn’t worry. But if a hacker have evil plans, then we should do something about it.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Introduction

This chapter is all about the main topic of the book which is the cathedral and the bazaar. This book is basically all about computer hackers, computer hacking, open-source community and hackerdom. It explains how hackers lives, how do they behave,and what culture do they really have. It also explains here the value of open source to people. Hackers are people who loves finding alternative ways the those existing ways. They love finding ways so that the cost for them would be lesser rather than buying an existing one for an expensive price. Some people mislead by the word hackers. before, I personally think that hackers do bad things. They make systems crash or create viruses. Now, I believe that I’m also a hacker since I want to find alternative ways to those existing one.

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Getting real chapter 12

This chapter basically tackled about product launching. Before we could actually launch our product, there are so many things to be done. You have to promote it, giving freebies, product testings, advertise it etc. But even though you do these things, there is just 1 thing that is important, you have to sell your product so that you could earn profit. You should make your product easy to use and cost effective so that you could earn a lot or you could lose a little. It’s like gambling when you launch a product, you don’t know if people would buy it or not.

Avoiding long term contract is important because of the pressure it brings. It’s a trap that is hard to go away. Giving contracts like maintainance or warranties should have a limit. If you give longer warranty, the more cost you could get. Just give enough warranty but make sure that it is legal. Raising prices should be advice in advance so that your customers wouldn’t be shock.

So this chapter tackles about product launching and how you will deal with it.

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