Came across as excuses as why the subversion design was so inflexible and how it's going to change. Painting a picture that distributed version control systems

Came across as excuses as why the subversion design was so inflexible and how it's going to change. Painting a picture that distributed version control systems learnt from subversion is rubbish. These technologies were developed over the same period: bitkeeper's development started some time in 1997.