From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn.intro.history http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn... Subversion's Hi

From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn.intro.history http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn... Subversion's History In early 2000, CollabNet, Inc. (http://www.collab.net http://www.collab.net) began seeking developers to write a replacement for CVS. CollabNet offered[3] a collaboration software suite called CollabNet Enterprise Edition (CEE), of which one component was version control. Although CEE used CVS as its initial version control system, CVS's limitations were obvious from the beginning, and CollabNet knew it would eventually have to find something better. Unfortunately, CVS had become the de facto standard in the open source world largely because there wasn't anything better, at least not under a free license. So CollabNet determined to write a new version control system from scratch, retaining the basic ideas of CVS, but without the bugs and misfeatures. Note "retaining the basic ideas of CVS, but without the bugs and misfeatures." derive base a concept on a logical extension or modification of (another concept).