Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 07:24:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Salon article on BSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005160723330.19841-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20000516084731.A49446@happy.checkpoint.com>
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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
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