Slashdot Mirror
Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets
wallykeyster writes "The Register is reporting on Andrew Tridgell publicly demonstrating how to interoperate with Bitkeeper. During his keynote at the Linux.Conf.Au, Tridgell connected to a BitKeeper site via telnet and used the mostly forgotten "help" tool. Ethical arguments of aside, what really counts as reverse engineering anyway?"
A man named Johan Mikelson who keeps track of every bit inside his head!
err...give him back his karma :-P
(yeah, yeah, I know the Preview button is there - you can give him some of my karma for not previewing)
These political spats are fun, but realistically speaking, this is degenerating into an episode of "The Simple Life."
Next thing you know, Torvalis will be breaking up with Perens because "well, he knows what he did."
Person 1 liked a tool. Person 2's actions caused the first person to lose rights to his tool. Person 1 vents. Person 3 vents on Person 1. BFD.
Soon, there will be a group hug and an exchange of hair care products. End of story. Welcome to "life in the big leagues of software." Tune in next week, when Person 5 attempts to purchase a voltage regulator.
Gee, if Linux/Microsoft is so brittle that it cannot protect itself from a hostile client, people shouldn't use it either.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, General Electric, and Exxon
And who the HELL are you to be telling Torvalds how he should spend his time?
I did some research on him:
He is Mikael Johansson.
His slashdot ID is 814403.
And here is a link to his account in case you want to know more: http://slashdot.org/~Mikael%20Johansson.
UNIX was and is open source?
Tell that to AT&T then (or SCO now)
Tridgell = Samba = Screws Microsoft = Good
Any questions?
That's okay. Linus gives us a new git, and FSF - an old git.
-- Soruk
All very true - but - please don't invite me to your place for dinner!!!!
pithy comment