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From the FSF perspective ...

Posted Jan 26, 2006 0:39 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award by kirkengaard
Parent article: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award

... I'm sure that they were just delighted that Larry was pissed off and yanked BitKeeper, even more so than they were with Samba. Though for me, rsync is my favorite Tridgeware.


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hurrah for rsync!

Posted Jan 26, 2006 16:49 UTC (Thu) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link]

Years ago, I needed Samba and delighted at reading about Tridgell's international pizza compensation.

Tridgell's rsync has saved me uncountable hours while providing amazing convenience. Somehow I missed his name in the credits for rsync all this time.

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