Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly.
> >>
> > I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that
> > the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the
> > programming/compsci/compeng world was figuring out how to make it
> > possible for hundreds of people to work on the same code base without
> > stepping all over each other.
> >
> > I'm not sure if I agree with that being his *only* contribution, but it
> > sure is a good one nonetheless.
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> I guess it depends on your definition of "notable". For the longest
> time, he never use a vcs, and so *lots* of patches got lost.
He redeemed himself, though, when he decided to start using Bitkeeper,
right?
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Regards,
Florian
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