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Posted Jan 26, 2006 11:03 UTC (Thu) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)
In reply to: git by lm
Parent article: Tridge wins the 2005 Free Software Award

"critical people wasting their time on trying to create a replacement"

For the last decade or two, thousands of people (including Larry McVoy, Linus, Tridge, and many LWN readers) have been spending time trying to create a replacement for what already existed: Unix and various other proprietary software. We usually don't consider such development as being a "waste of time", even in cases where the "replacement" remains functionally inferior to the existing, proprietary, software, and even where the existing software was available free of charge.

I make no claim as to whether Tridge's actions to bring this displacement about are laudable or not. I presume that the mentioning of Tridge's BitKeeper interoperability work (after a longer paragraph of other contributions) is intended primarily to affirm the importance of using Free Software for Linux development.

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