Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 11:58:25 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <20000516115825.B19647@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com>; from mellon@pobox.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:47:31AM %2B0000 References: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com>
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Anatoly Vorobey said on May 16, 2000 at 08:47:31: > 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 so mind-boggingly... misguided?... I just don't know what to > say to this. He also doesn't like kernel debuggers, on the grounds that they make you try to cure the symptom rather than the problem. He prefers that people stare at the code until they see what's wrong with it. Well, whatever suits him -- and linux has improved phenomenally in the last 3 years, ie since its 1.2 days, so he must be doing something right. One can't say what *would* have happened if he'd done things differently. R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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