Is Google+ a Cathedral Or a Bazaar?

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."

I'm Confused on the Article's "Cathedral"

[eldavojohn]

It's been a while since I've perused CatB but from the article:

The Bazaar was likened to the slightly chaotic but powerful collective approach behind the development of open source software.

The Cathedral represented the traditional, closed, corporate approach to software development.

Um, I'm a little confused on their definition of the Cathedral. From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] (and also from my memory):

* The Cathedral model, in which source code is available with each software release, but code developed between releases is restricted to an exclusive group of software developers. GNU Emacs and GCC are presented as examples.
* The Bazaar model, in which the code is developed over the Internet in view of the public. Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process. Raymond also provides anecdotal accounts of his own implementation of this model for the Fetchmail project.

GNU Emacs and GCC were the "traditional, closed, corporate approach to software development"? That's news to me!

I don't follow nor agree with this adaptation of CatB to social networks ... nor do I think the author of this article fully read CatB.