From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 2:27:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D5A37B53B for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 02:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@avarice.riverstyx.net) Received: (from unknown@localhost) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4G9RfC29156; Tue, 16 May 2000 02:27:41 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 02:27:41 -0700 From: Tani Hosokawa To: Arun Sharma Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <20000516022741.B28657@riverstyx.net> References: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> <200005160645.XAA23891@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005160645.XAA23891@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Mon, May 15, 2000 at 11:45:26PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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