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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?"

9 of 373 comments (clear)

  1. nth post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    die troll scum! No first post for oyu!

  2. Other BK Secrets: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Other BK Secrets:

    - Free ice-cream at Baskin Robbins if you read the EULA.
    - Christian influenced code.
    - Uses RPN.

  3. Yeah I mentioned this before by Naikrovek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but i was modded down for it. assholes.

    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=146845&c id=12301815

    1. Re:Yeah I mentioned this before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Kill them all. Every one.

    2. Re:Yeah I mentioned this before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The reason is simple, you're just over the evil limit.

  4. Re:Booooring by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Lisa does.

  5. Re:Recycled Comment by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow. You need a hobby.

    That's almost as bad as reading one of those "Hollywood Gossip" columns in a supermarket tabloid.

    --
    Comment of the year
  6. Tridge is a scab by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tridge is a scab, plain and simple.

  7. Re:What counts as reverse engineering BitKeeper? by lilmouse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow. I'm redundant because I replied to the article instead of replying to the "frist post"??? Nice :)

    Now I'm off topic, too ;-)

    --LWM