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dcrazytoday at 2:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

I’m confused, when has “everything” been a bazaar, and when did that cease to be?


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throawayonthetoday at 2:32 PM

of course not literally 'everything', but as someone that grew up in a post-git world, with github as the 'default', to me projects that don't accept (or expect!) outside contributions have been the exception; definitely aware of notable examples (sqlite? some web servers, a few internal-libraries-that-outsiders-use?) but very much used to the bazaar

i think the claim is that more projects are locking up contribution paths ~currently

Sharlintoday at 4:29 PM

Umm, I missed a negation there, sorry. I meant that the newest generation has only seen a world where there's a giant OSS ecosystem and the bazaar style is the norm for all of your tool and library needs.

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