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DVCSes have the critically important property that there is no longer any inherent technical center of development but that the social center of development is
by delano 17y ago
DVCSes have the critically important property that there is no longer any inherent technical center of development but that the social center of development is retained (usually).
This is a really good point. It allows the social structure of the project to grow and change in a very natural way which makes it not only easier to adapt as committers come and go, but effortless.
- stcredzero 17y agoThe social center is also decided by a kind of marketplace. With central control of a repository, you can have what amounts to an "irrigation rights empire" -- a totalitarian regime (perhaps with some democratic window dressing) based on one party's control over some sort of infrastructure.