"The cathedral" was originally GNU and GCC. (raymond's site is super slow.)

Appending ‘development’ seems like a significant departure from ‘vanilla’ “Open Source” to me, and wouldn’t all development be ‘closed-source’ at least between commits, if not between pull requests?

> In closed-source software development, the programmers are often spending a lot of time dealing with and creating bug reports, as well as handling feature requests. This time is spent on creating and prioritizing further development plans. This leads to part of the development team spending a lot of time on these issues, and not on the actual development.

So, in closed source you work on bug reports and feature requests. In open source you work on development. But it's the closed source people working on building a cathedral.

I understand what they're driving at, but this is still the stupidest description of the analogy that I've ever seen.