Quiz 1: The Success of Open Source & The Open Source Way

This is a in-class quiz regarding to the reading of What Is Open Source and How Does It Work? and The Open Source Way

1. What are the titles of each Pillar?
• Open Exchange
• Participation
• Rapid prototyping
• Meritocracy
• Community
2. What are the titles of each General Principle?
• Make it interesting and make sure it happends
• Scratch an itch
• Minimize how many times you have to reinvent the wheel
• Solve problems through parallel
• Leverage the law of lager numbers
• Document what you do
• Release early and release often
• Talk a lot
3. What are the similarities between Weber's eight principles, and the five pillars?
• Both the eight principles and five pillars explained the reason of why people would be involved to the open source projects. They also explained how and why people in the community would work together (both Minimize how many times you have to reinvent the wheel in the eight principles and Open Exchange in the five pillars).
4. What are the differences?
• Weber’s eight principles focused more on how important it is for the communication to work together while the five pillars are more general about what makes the open source work. Additionally, Meritocracy in the five pillars also was no directly mentioned in Weber’
5. Bonus: Who's "keen analysis" did Weber "Draw Heavily" upon?"
• Eric Raymond
6. Double-Bonus: What was the title of this "keen analysis." (Hint: Weber hinted at the title when he was talking about Cathedrals earlier in the chapter.)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
7. Triple-Bonus: Where can this keen analysis be found? (Answer in URL form, i.e. http://placeofkeenanalysisis.com/analysis)
• http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/