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Linus on Subversion, GPL3, Microsoft and More

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

victor77 writes "Linus has repeatedly slammed Subversion and CVS, questioning their basic architecture. Subversion community has responded...how valid is Linus's statement?" This and many other subjects are covered in this interview with Linus.

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  1. Indians in open source by JosefAssad · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Q: India is one of the major producers of software engineers, yet we don't contribute much to the Linux domain. What do you think is keeping Indians from becoming proactive on that front?

    From the opensource.org license-discuss mailing list (just today!):

    From: meteor <emailaddychanged@iiitb.ac.in>
    To: license-discuss@opensource.org
    Subject: Browsers
    Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:41:00 -0700 (PDT)

    Hi all, as compared to you all am only a starter as far as opensource softwares go and so i need some help from u guys. I am developing an application for PDA and require a light-weight browser for it. I have got an option of using Firefox but can nebody suggest me a lighter browser. Any kind of help will be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance
    Regards
    meteor

    Well, it isn't for lack of trying...

    --
    The Banjo Players Must Die!
  2. Re:Linus would not be pleased... by Richard_at_work · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yup, just like the extremely high incidence rate of 'MySQL concurrent user count exceeded' errors that front page Slashdot articles seem to induce in other websites, especially for what should be nothing more than static pages! I wonder who owns the patent on those...