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This is a textbook case for a business school

This is a textbook case for a business school

Posted Apr 7, 2005 2:26 UTC (Thu) by darthmdh (guest, #8032)
In reply to: This is a textbook case for a business school by hppnq
Parent article: Linus on the BK withdrawal

Nobody claims BitKeeper was written especially for Linus, so I don't really see your point.

dlang wrote in the comment I replied to, in fact, opened it with "actually the real story is that bitkeeper was developed FOR Linus to use. that's what shifted Larry from his current projects to full-time work on SCM's."

I was addressing this mis-truth (apologies for not quoting it originally)


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This is a textbook case for a business school

Posted Apr 7, 2005 9:04 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

See your original post, to which dlang responded... There are many accounts of how BitKeeper was developed and adjusted to Linus' needs (google for "Larry McVoy Linus Torvalds Dave Miller").

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