January 2000
Software Frontier
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
By Wade Roush
It wasn't until Frederick Jackson Turner published The Significance of the Frontier in American History in 1893 that Americans fully realized there had been a frontier. In what was probably the most significant and controversial piece of scholarship of the 1890s, Turner showed that the nation's identity in the 19th century had hinged on westward expansion; now a new identity would be required.
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