From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 22:47:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (happy.checkpoint.com [199.203.156.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B551A37B510 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 22:47:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA49468 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 May 2000 08:47:31 GMT (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 08:47:31 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html (the headpiece of today's Salon). Here's Linus quoted inside on why he doesn't do source control: "The purely technical side of keeping track of the sources can be handled by source control packages," says Torvalds, "but at least, in my opinion, they actually tend to favor the approach of 'Let's put this in now; if it turns out to be a mistake, we can always revert it because we have source control.' And of course, nobody ever actually does clean up anything. Or hardly ever. So I think the real problem in computer science is to have quality control before it even hits the distribution, and so far there isn't any other package than the human brain that can do that job." This is so mind-boggingly... misguided?... I just don't know what to say to this. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message