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Posted Jan 26, 2006 5:31 UTC (Thu) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)
In reply to: git by lm
Parent article: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award

Ahh, Mr. McVoy. Your indignation and personal pronouns. Bitterness ill becomes a professional.

Not that you have a grudge here, or anything. Not that he took your clients. Your clients were trying to leave.

Note that Linus continues to both work on Linux and git, and that he has even offloaded the brunt of the SCM work onto people who are far more interested in making it into a good, GPL SCM. Not that you worry for his occupational health over all concerns. We don't seem to have a crisis of work conflict here. What's better is Free Software. What's better is itches you can scratch if you want to. Tridge had an itch. So did half the world, Linux-wise. And BitKeeper wouldn't let them scratch it, but it got them interested enough to try. Linus, of all people, was willing not to scratch it, because it wasn't his itch, and you gave him a tool that helped him scratch what was his itch. Not that he's a one trick pony. Unless you mean to imply that he can't code for more than one project at a time?

You made a great tool, but you had to tell us what we couldn't do with it.

You have only yourself to blame for selling it to a bunch of rebellious tinkerers for use with their pet project.

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