A new GCC runtime library license snag?

Actually, the FSF _was_ the "cathedral" in CATB, and Linux was the "Bazaar". (Eric's said so in a couple interviews over the years, he just didn't play it up in the paper itself so as not to set-off the FSF's supporters.) Eric was comparing different methods of open source development. (Keep in mind that CATB came out shortly before the egcs fork, when gcc development was stagnant.)

Eric got the idea for the paper at a conference in 1996, which is described in some detail here:

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch11.html