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to: Joe Barr
from: Thees Peereboom
date: 2003-01-28 12:51:14
subject: Re: Larry McVoy on BitKeeper, Linus, and Perens

From: Thees Peereboom 

Joe,

Nice piece. Makes me understand better how the OS community works once again.

Thanks for sharing.

- Thees Peereboom

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:27:10 -0600, "Joe Barr"
 wrote:

>http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0127.barr.html
>
> The story of how BitKeeper has come to be Linus Torvalds' (and many other
> kernel hackers) tool of choice in maintaining the Linux development tree
> is worthy of a book. Here's the Cliff Note's version of McVoy's
> contribution to Linux kernel development, BitKeeper, and countless hours
> of flaming on the role of open source and proprietary software.
>

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