- Photo
- —
- Name
- —
- Field
- Software engineering / open source
- Year
- 1997
- Main topic
- Contrasting centralized vs open development
- Key idea
- Given enough eyeballs, bugs are shallow — open, iterative collaboration can beat top-down planning.
- Why it matters
- Foundational for how we think about open source, but also eerily relevant to modern product and community building.
- Best for
- Thinking about contribution models, community roadmaps, and platform ecosystems.
- Difficulty
- Low — more essay than formal paper.
- My take
- Reads like the origin story for GitHub, hackathons, and half of modern dev culture.
- Reading tip
- Print and mark up; it’s short enough to read in one sitting and argue with in the margins.
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