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"Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS." Usenix 1999, by Charles D. Cranor (AT&T), Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD). https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-p
by notaplumber 8y ago
"Opening the Source Repository with Anonymous CVS."
Usenix 1999, by Charles D. Cranor (AT&T), Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD).
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-paper.pdf
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.ps https://www.openbsd.org/papers/anoncvs-slides.ps
OpenBSDs involvement here is conveniently missing, arguably GitHub may not have ever existed.
Also of note, despite the paper being presented in 1999, AnonCVS was operating as early as 1995. Other projects were still putting tarballs on FTP, no read access to source history.