who already had all the components of building an operating system ready but did not have a kernel. From 1991 to 1993, Linux was still in its beta phase where it was not ready to go out as a complete operating system. During its initial years, Linux was still an operating system used mainly by enthusiasts, but something was about to change.For Linux to grow out of the world of enthusiasts and to be adopted by businesses, it needed a real-world use that would make it a must-have technology.
This fuelled the adoption of Linux because of the internet boom. It made sense for the large corporations, internet service providers, and budding e-commerce companies back then to run their applications using Linux to save costs. Since the community of developers contributing to Apache and Linux was usually the same, the performance you got from running Apache on Linux was far better than running it on other operating systems.
- The Cathedral model was the conventional and closed software development model. In the cathedral model, you have tight specifications of objectives within small project groups which are run in a relatively hierarchical and authoritarian manner.- He termed what was happening in the Linux world as the Bazaar Model. The word "bazaar" means an open market.
This whitepaper was vital because it was the final push for Netscape Communications Corporation to release the source code for Netscape Communicator and start