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Hm, I don't think so. Linus never had a problem with bitkeeper being proprietary, and he actually was annoyed when Andrew Tridgell tried to reverse-engineer the
by jordigh 9y ago
Hm, I don't think so. Linus never had a problem with bitkeeper being proprietary, and he actually was annoyed when Andrew Tridgell tried to reverse-engineer the bitkeeper protocol. Linus seemed very unhappy with Tridgell, not with Larry McVoy for making bitkeeper proprietary. He built git out of necessity, not out of some desire to have free software.
- snakeanus 9y ago> and he actually was annoyed when Andrew Tridgell tried to reverse-engineer the bitkeeper protocol. Linus seemed very unhappy with Tridgell Why was that?
- jordigh 9y agoEl Reg has the story: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tridgell/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tr...
- Shorel 9y ago> He built git out of necessity, not out of some desire to have free software. History has proven that necessity is a much better incentive, and produces better products than ideology.
- jordigh 9y agoI don't know about that. Hg was built at the same time for the same reason but seems to have more ideology around it, and I would argue it's a superior product that just was unlucky enough to not have github built for it.
- Shorel 9y agoFor people who seriously care about performance like me, git is by far the superior product. I don't care much about the github website, because 99% of the time I use git from the command line.