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For those that don't know, Larry was the author of BitKeeper and when he changed the license for it, it prompted Linus to write Git. Guessing if he had never d
by e40 2y ago
For those that don't know, Larry was the author of BitKeeper and when he changed the license for it, it prompted Linus to write Git. Guessing if he had never done that, we'd all be using BitKeeper now and Git wouldn't exist.
- kjs3 2y agoAnd Marc Rochkind (the OP) wrote SCCS, as well as one of the more seminal Unix programming books and a ton of other notable achievements. Looking through the rest of the archive, nice to see that Larry has gone into retirement but makes time away from fishing to continue to tell us how fucking smart he is and how stupid everyone else is. Never change, Larry.
- e40 2y agoYeah, the battles between him and others on the linux kernel mailing list were epic.
- maxbond 2y agoIt was also the impetus for the lesser known SCMs Mercurial and Fossil.