On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 20:30:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>> The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. > >>>> > >>> I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that > >>> the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the > >>> programming/compsci/compeng world was figuring out how to make it > >>> possible for hundreds of people to work on the same code base without > >>> stepping all over each other. > >>> > >>> I'm not sure if I agree with that being his *only* contribution, but it > >>> sure is a good one nonetheless. > >> I guess it depends on your definition of "notable". For the longest > >> time, he never use a vcs, and so *lots* of patches got lost. > > > > He redeemed himself, though, when he decided to start using Bitkeeper, > > right? > > No doubt. > > Unfortunately, "finally using a vcs in the 21st century" is *not* a > notable contribution to the world of software engineering.
I was trying to be sarcastic anyway, seeing how the Bitkeeper story ended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitkeeper#Zero-cost_BitKeeper_for_Linux_and_other_open_source_projects -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
