Abstract
Recently the Electronic Seismologist (ES) has been wasting his time glancing through a variety of computer trade rags and has noticed a plethora of articles with strange titles bearing little apparent relevance to the usual standard geeky bits and bytes. Being easily attracted by seemingly irrelevant titles, he became hooked on these articles comparing software development strategies with two medieval institutions. Both cathedrals and bazaars provided major focal points for the daily lives of the peasants, masters, and maybe even the seismologists of 1,000 years ago in central Europe. Both were places for obtaining nourishment (for the belly or soul), news, and information, and were centers for social interaction. Even for those who did not pray in the cathedrals or shop in the bazaars, both institutions affected their daily lives in profound ways, just as today those who don't use computer software are nevertheless affected strongly by its use around them. Of course, the construction of a cathedral was totally different from that of a bazaar. The cathedral was carefully planned, designed...
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