From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 23:45:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC45D37B70B for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 23:45:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA23891; Mon, 15 May 2000 23:45:26 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 23:45:26 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005160645.XAA23891@sharmas.dhs.org> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD In-Reply-To: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > 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 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. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message