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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 28, 2013 18:44 UTC (Mon) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by Cyberax
Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths

> Yup. And Linux is just a power play to expand into the area of version control systems. Linus hated Subversion so much that he created Linux in order to make git popular.

Actually, he probably does hate subversion enough to have done that. :)


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Poettering: The Biggest Myths

Posted Jan 29, 2013 11:19 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

No no no, he hated *CVS* enough to do that. And this was an entirely rational attitude.

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