# The Cathedral and the Bazaar *Source: · markdown twin of the entry page.* *An influence on **Dinis Cruz** — one of 25 entries in his register.* - **tier** stated — on Dinis Cruz's list, thin or absent in the corpus, awaiting his briefing document - **kind** work - **status** stub — blocks 1 and 3, plus the research plan — awaiting Dinis Cruz's briefing document - **briefing** requested The essay's factual history belongs to the open-source sibling site. This entry owns only what it *did to Dinis Cruz* — which is exactly the part that is not written down anywhere. ## Block 1 — The anchor The Cathedral and the Bazaar — Eric S. Raymond — 1997 - anchor: Published free by its author and still online at its original address, which is itself part of the argument. *Linked, never rehosted.* ## Block 2 — In his own words The deconfliction here is unusually sharp. [open-source.sgit.ai](https://open-source.sgit.ai) carries the essay's history, its influence on the movement and the arguments it started. If this entry repeated any of that it would be duplicating a sibling, so it is deliberately empty of everything except the one thing that sibling cannot hold: **what reading it in the late nineties or early two-thousands did to a particular person's idea of how software gets made.** That is Dinis Cruz's to write. ## Block 3 — The principle **Release early, release often, and let the people using the thing find what is wrong with it — openness as a development method rather than a licensing choice.** ## Block 7 — The wider library - **The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)** — the essay, free at its original address - **Homesteading the Noosphere (1998)** — the follow-up on ownership and reputation in open-source projects - **Two Bits — Christopher Kelty (2008)** — not by Raymond, and the best critical account of what the essay got right and wrong ## Awaiting the briefing document Named by Dinis Cruz. The corpus covers the essay's factual history through the open-source material and says nothing about its personal effect — and the personal effect is the whole content of this entry. **Research plan.** Dinis Cruz's briefing, [N4](../../admin/comms.html#n4). The specific question: what changed after reading it — a decision about releasing something, a change in how work was structured, or a way of arguing for openness that he did not have before. Contemporaneous blog posts from the O2 Platform era are the place to look, and they are out of reach ([R3](../../admin/comms.html#r3)). ## The corpus evidence None. This influence is on Dinis Cruz's own list and the corpus scan found nothing to attach to it — which is the definition of the STATED tier. --- CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.