The Cathedral and the Bazaar

I found some of this reading to be a little confusing. Although, there was an anology I guess you would say, that I did like because it helped me to understand a little better. "No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here—rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who'd take submissions from anyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles." I like how he compares Linux to a babbling bazaar. It helps to give me a better idea of what Linux is like.