Re: bias...

Francois Gouget <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Roland wrote:

> At 10:34 AM 6/5/02 +0200, Marco Pietrobono wrote:
>
> >   shit. GCC is not destroying anything. Have you checked how many
> >compilers are still around?
>
> Also did you know that Linux stopped using CVS and started using BitKeeper
> a proprietary software to manage the sourcetree? He switched because it is
> a much better system. I think there will always be space for innovation.

AFAIK, Linus never used CVS to store the Linux kernel. Before BitKeeper
he used 'diff+tar+gzip' (i.e. nothing). So he did not switch per say.
However, it is possible others (especially ports to non-x86
architectures) had their own tree and used CVS.


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