   Friday, October 14, 2005  The Cathedral is the Bizarre (Too)
Jon Udell points out that the cathedral and the bazaar have much
in common, perhaps most of all would be their respective ongoing
evolution. They are equally bizarre.  To the point about Sed and
Awk... I am not sure the cathedral or today's bazaar is more
coherent. I am not sure they need to be. We've been postmodern
for some time and we should not expect that to change. Embracing
the chaos is almost the goal itself.  Innovation implies chaos.
Sometimes the cathedral can be too limiting for innovation, or
at least timely innovation. Look at the back and forth on
schedules and dependencies among the new work coming out of
Microsoft's dotnet and longhorn team. When was WinFS avalable
again? What platforms? How does that line up with the LINQ query
capability again?  In the bazaar there is much less control over
the chaos. I'm fine with that because generally people find or
make ways to get from one place to another within the bazaar.
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