[svlug] Preventing a Revision Control Flamewar

[Alan DuBoff]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Tom Pilot wrote:

> Ive seen flamewars in the past about source control.. see 
> below the youtube of Linus Torvalds The Dork thinking he is 
> god almighty, going to Google and telling them, and all others 
> who tune in,  that they are all idiots and stupid for using 
> CVS and perforce... AND THEY LET HIM. If I was there I would 
> boot him out of the room or at least call him on being an 
> asswipe. So he wrote a buggy kernel some years ago - so 
> freaking what - so many other people used CVS and perforce to 
> add to "his" linux wonderful things. I dont understand why 
> people make him out the god he pretends to be and let him be 
> so disrespectful to them. They need to recheck their spine.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

Wow, if only he could have consulted with you before he did 
anything, he would have made the proper choice.

Your message, and the direction of the thread on this list show 
that most people really miss the point that Linus was trying to 
make in regards to distributed vs. centralized repositories.

Yes, he is certain to make his point, but the real point is that 
we live and develop in a distributed environment on the web, and 
using a centralized repository is a poor solution at best.

This is actually a good point, and one that really needs to be 
driven home.

Claiming people are idiots is only his way of making his point 
about distributed systems. Your response above shows that he 
might have a point.;-)

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Alan DuBoff - Software Orchestration