-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: > 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. > > He was wrong. People step all over each other in the kernel and just > about every application that requires more than a few developers all the > time in the open-source world. [Hint, see recent ABI screw-ups in > mysql-server and mysql-client... not caused by Debian, happened > upstream. Retarded bugs really, too.]
Just because Linus solved a *social* problem, doesn't mean that that ability was instantly transmitted to every other project. > CVS/Subversion/[insert tool du jour here] are what REALLY allow > collaborative development. That and communication, both public and > private, between the devs. > > The fact that "stepping on" happens every day, is why new versions > aren't released the second the source hits the tree. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFcIalS9HxQb37XmcRAkrVAKC2FDXw0aNq22bWOr7/gnawpeseywCg3iBc O78b6veUMzNwC/ODhhRi6UQ= =o3bI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
