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I find it ironic that in the same post the author complains about a git monopoly ("Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes") while wishing the same thin
by thenewnewguy 7y ago
I find it ironic that in the same post the author complains about a git monopoly ("Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes") while wishing the same thing for fossil ("Fossil's world domination will not come from...").
- lidHanteyk 7y ago"world domination", specifically, refers to a long-running joke about the corporate-sponsored capitalist competitors to FLOSS. See [0] for an example of the joke being used to title a talk and frame business decisions. [1] contains a history of the phrase in the Linux world. Note that Linux and git share the same original author/designer. [0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-dom... [1] http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/2002-January/008429.html http://xent.com/pipermail/fork/2002-January/008429.html