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Linus must be very proud - his favourite software Windows - now depends on GIT.
by garyclarke27 9y ago
Linus must be very proud - his favourite software Windows - now depends on GIT.
- geodel 9y agoI hope this largest repository has enough space for Clippy as Linus loves it.
- geodel 9y agohttps://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/5s9ZLWQDjwn https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/5s9ZLWQDjwn
- sriram_sun 9y agoWell how the tables have turned! Only about 3 yrs back I was having a conversation with a Microsoft engineer about them evaluating a closed source Hadoop clone because Microsoft policy prohibited them from using open source.
- tonmoy 9y agoUsing open source in their product is different from using it for development. I wonder which one you talking about with that employee
- sriram_sun 9y agoI'm pretty sure it was for a product (server side), not an internal dev tool. Back in 2000 one of my roommates was an intern with the VS team and he said a lot of the devs were using emacs.
- vtbassmatt 9y agoDifferent divisions have had different stances on open source code for a long time. Somewhere I still have the t-shirt from our first "Open Source Day" event back in 2008 (and it's not like that was the first time any MS employee had ever considered using open source). Things are a lot more standardized now, with a big push from both the top and the bottom to use open source wherever it makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel?
- sriram_sun 9y ago> Why reinvent the wheel? Look who's talking :)! Wasn't WiX released and developed as an Open Source project by MS?
- krylon 9y agoIIRC, it was the first open source project started by Microsoft / by a Microsoft employee. As a German, I find the name super cringeworthy, but it makes me giggle every now and then.
- sangnoir 9y agoLinus ought to be proud - it wasn't too long ago when Microsoft was calling his other work "a cancer", and now Windows depends on Git.Younger me would not believe this. Linus definitely is a rare genius on design and execution - he made his mark not only on Kernels/OSes, but on version control systems as well. I salute you, Linus!
- flamedoge 9y agoit is cancer with good connotations
- smitherfield 9y agoIf I recall correctly, wasn't the "cancer" remark in reference to the GPL?
- sangnoir 9y agoYour recollection is inaccurate. > Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001.[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
- manyoso 9y agoI am very certain that Linus would read this article and curse the jaw dropping stupidity of the whole endeavor. They've basically taken a tool he wrote to do real distributed source control that can scale and turned it into a central server. Git was never meant to be used this way and I know he'd be horrified+amused in the extreme.