-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. >> > I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that > the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the > programming/compsci/compeng world was figuring out how to make it > possible for hundreds of people to work on the same code base without > stepping all over each other. > > I'm not sure if I agree with that being his *only* contribution, but it > sure is a good one nonetheless.
I guess it depends on your definition of "notable". For the longest time, he never use a vcs, and so *lots* of patches got lost. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFb1YoS9HxQb37XmcRAhwdAJ0Vr9P1O5jPaQGgGfl40j48FMwVzgCeIr6O ixb6jf4aRm7BkNJJupnOld0= =Z5Zk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
