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Cathedral and Bazaar…and Gaming?

Posted by GBGames on September 7th, 2005

In the latest Escapist, The Contrarian: Roll the Dice mentions ESR’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
I’m reminded of Eric S. Raymond’s essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote about the differences between top-down, monolithic software development and bottom-up, open-source development. But the metaphor applies here too.
People don’t always get what the Cathedral […]

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Blizzard Wins bnetd Case

Posted by GBGames on September 7th, 2005

Blizzard wins lawsuit on video game hacking. If you are not familiar with this case, basically Ross Combs and Rob Crittenden are two guys were fed up with Battle.net being unresponsive and decide to reverse-engineer their own version of it called bnetd.
My take? Just from the article, it sounds like if it wasn’t […]

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