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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Nov 24, 2011 17:21 UTC (Thu) by daglwn (subscriber, #65432)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by dgm
Parent article: Quotes of the week

git facilitates forks because it makes merges easy. So it really does both and that's its killer feature.

What Mikeal is running into is the social upheaval such a model causes. It forces projects from a cathedral to a bazaar operation. That makes people uncomfortable. Not because they're bad people or have some nefarious agenda, but just because it's a fundamental change and it's scary.


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