Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 02:27:41 -0700 From: Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <20000516022741.B28657@riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <200005160645.XAA23891@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:45:26PM -0700 References: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> <200005160645.XAA23891@sharmas.dhs.org>
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On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:45:26PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: > > 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 exactly like his other argument - "debuggers are for wimps". > BTW, there is a company that Larry McVoy founded, (www.bitmover.com) > whose only purpose was to help Linus maintain his sanity. I'm not > sure if Linus plans to use it. I think it's actually www.bitkeeper.com, in case anyone cares. -- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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