From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 7:23:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C4D37B9C7 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9AA56755B; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D931D89; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:24:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 07:24:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD In-Reply-To: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 May 2000, Anatoly Vorobey 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 so mind-boggingly... misguided?... I just don't know what to :say to this. Quit being overly polite. This falls under blatant stupidity caused by extreme arrogance. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message