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Jan 2009
1h 7m

Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, an...

RUSS ROBERTS
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Eric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book--why open source software development has been so successful, the culture of open source, under what conditions open source is likely to thrive and not to thrive, and the Hayekian nature of the open source process. The conversation closes w ... Show More
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