Bitkeeper, the universe, and everything

Bitkeeper, the universe, and everything

Posted Mar 30, 2004 2:57 UTC (Tue) by ghudson (guest, #20530)
In reply to: Bitkeeper, the universe, and everything by lm
Parent article: subversion 1.0 is released

I'm not sure where Larry got the idea that "HP paid for the development" of Subversion; it sounds like he thinks some big company felt charitable one day and decided to dump a few EFTs into open source SCM development.

Subversion development is hosted and partly funded by CollabNet (which I have no financial association with), which as I understand it is a startup company whose business model is to sell a commercial product which either does now or will soon integrate Subversion, among other components. By making Subversion open source, I believe they hope to be better able to compete with the heavies like IBM/Rational than they could either by integrating CVS or by developing a proprietary SCM system.

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