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Old 27th February 2013
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Seems like in the Unix world, there isn't as strong a division between development and admin.
I suspect that early on - the "admins" were the developers. The internet and open source concept allowed both collaboration and wide spread testing.

More detail is in Eric Raymond' paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar - MS development occurs in the Cathedral whereas much of BSD/Linux development occurs in the bazaar.
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