Research and find out what you can about "Cathedral and the Bizarre". Tell me in your own words what it is and why it might be important.

"Cathedral and the Bizarre" is an essay written by Eric S. Raymond. The essay is about open source software development vs. closed source. The author refers to closed source software as the "Cathedral" because the code is hidden from the public and made available only to specific software developers. Once the software is finished and ready to be seen the software is released but the code remains hidden.

He refers to open source software as the "Bizarre" because the code is free and available to all to tweak and develop. This goes against conventional means making it bizarre.

This is important because it started with Linus Torvalds and Linux. Linus started the Bizarre movement and it is now used by other software developers and companies.