-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----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. > > He redeemed himself, though, when he decided to start using Bitkeeper, > right?
No doubt. Unfortunately, "finally using a vcs in the 21st century" is *not* a notable contribution to the world of software engineering. - -- 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) iD8DBQFFb5PiS9HxQb37XmcRAs56AJ4lxA/AKAybm3hPMSiLQRR/3CMxRgCfcZBP GM8I57uY/b0Xydx03Vni2y8= =sDIQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
