"See Eric Raymond, "The Cathredral and the Bazaar"
(1997).
In summarizing the secrets of Torvalds' managerial
success, Raymond himself had pulled off a coup. One of
the audience members at the Linux Kongress was Tim
O'Reilly, publisher of O'Reilly & Associates, a company
specializing in software manuals and software-related
books (and the publisher of this book). After hearing
Raymond's Kongress speech, O'Reilly promptly invited
Raymond to deliver it again at the company's inaugural
Perl Conference later that year in Monterey, California.
Although the conference was supposed to focus on Perl,
a scripting language created by Unix hacker Larry Wall,
O'Reilly assured Raymond that the conference would
address other free software technologies. Given the
growing commercial interest in Linux and Apache, a
popular free software web server, O'Reilly hoped to use
the event to publicize the role of free software in
creating the entire infrastructure of the Internet.
From web-friendly languages such as Perl and Python to
back-room programs such as BIND (the Berkeley Internet
Naming Daemon), a software tool that lets users replace
arcane IP numbers with the easy-to-remember domain-name
addresses (e.
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