From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Ozan Yigit Message-ID: References: <20010308070404.3A5341998A@mail.cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] silly slider tool for rio Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:57:19 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6f78c17a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp writes: > >not faithful followers of the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" religion. > > As I'm not any native English speaker, I don't see why Cathedral and Bazaar > is tied with each other here. ;_; i gather the only reason the two are tied together is that it sounds interesting and deep to people who read "old architecture" for the word cathedral, and rarely visit an actual bazaar (let alone a cathedral :). he could have titled his treatise "empire state building and the bazaar" but it doesn't sound as neat, and who really wants to write about the kinds of architecture that can withstand (the equivalent of) a B-25 bomber crash? :] oz