Re: Mozilla picks a DSCM system.... an amusing read

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Apr 16, 2007, 04:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20070416041509.GL2229@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1HdCMO-0002kW-Lx@candygram.thunk.org>

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

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> 
> Unfortunately git was knocked out early due to concerns about the
> quality of its Win32 support, but it's a fun read, with some amusing
> artwork as side commentary:
> 
> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2007/04/version_control_system_shootou_1.html

The last article from preed on this topic was equally fun.

Interesting to see the comments on the bottom of the article; apparently a large number of Git fans have commented about how the Windows community didn't get involved in development, and are now pissed that Git isn't equally available for their platform. ;-)

There's a lot of truth in that - Windows users (that I know anyway) just want something to work. Even if they are themselves a programmer, they don't want to write X, they want someone else to give them X for free, in a fully functional state.

Which is an attitude that I never see from Linux users...

-- 
Shawn.