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Tridgell Reveals Bitkeeper Secrets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stare-into-my-secret-places dept.

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?"

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  1. Bit Keeper's actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A man named Johan Mikelson who keeps track of every bit inside his head!

  2. The Linux Life? by mveloso · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:lol @ #buttes, failures. by blueskies · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. What part of this don't you get? by glrotate · · Score: 3, Funny

    Tridgell = Samba = Screws Microsoft = Good

    Any questions?