Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday August 2, 2011 @05:23AM from the either-way-the-garden-is-walled dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With its recent mass suspension of accounts, Google has highlighted its desire to create a social network that is very different to the way many (including those whose accounts were suspended) would want to see it. The metaphor of the Cathedral and the Bazaar used for software development can be applied to the two types of social networks being proposed by Google on the one hand and the pseudonym supporters on the other. Google's Cathedral model emphasizes order and control whilst the bazaar model supports users who can be anonymous, have multiple identities, interact with anyone they please, and remain unobserved."

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Re:i usually dump all the anonymous into a circle by tftp · 2011-08-02 07:22 · Score: 5, Insightful

if you don't want to use your real name then i usually don't want to have anything to do with you on a social network
Of course. That's why you are using your full real name on Slashdot (which is a sort of a social network.) I wouldn't want to reply to you because of merits of your opinion - no, I'd reply only because I personally know you.