2.8. Final Notes about CatB

• The "Cathedral and the Bazaar" was considered a ground-breaking work by the open-source community, and by many other software engineers who have read it.
• Many projects switched to the Bazaar style and found an increase in productivity.
• Still, some developers have not yet read CatB and use a mixture of Cathedral and Bazaar elements in managing their projects. When I read CatB in 2002 I regretted I had not fully read it earlier, as I was already full-way in developing and maintaining a mature project.
• Many software shops, who cannot afford to fully open-source their code (from various reasons), have adopted some of the concepts put forth by CatB and also saw a boost to their productivity.