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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bazaar \Ba*zaar"\ Bazar \Ba*zar"\(b[.a]*z[aum]r"), n. [Per. b[=a]zar market.] 1. In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale. 2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair. 3. A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable objects. --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bazaar n 1: a shop where a variety of goods are sold [syn: {bazar}] 2: a street of small shops (especially in Orient) [syn: {bazar}] 3: a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar" [syn: {fair}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: bazaar n.,adj. In 1997, after meditatating on the success of {Linux} for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/). The main argument of the paper was that {Brooks's Law} is not the whole story; given the right social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see also {cathedral}), and the style of development typical in the Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its characteristics include releasing code early and often and actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers.
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