>More fundamentally they were centralized and Linus had experience from watching the BSDs and knew that a centralized version control was actually worse than no

>More fundamentally they were centralized and Linus had experience from watching the BSDs and knew that a centralized version control was actually worse than none Watching another group from the outside is not experience. But what makes you say he even had that? He's pretty consistently suggested he has no time to pay any attention to any of the BSD projects going right back to 1993.