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lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) writes:

> If the Linux community can't handle dealing with partially free software,
> then they are welcome to write completely free software to do the
> same job.

I'd suggest that most people use CVS, and find it workable enough for
their needs. Certainly, for my purposes, developing internal scipts and
small programming projects, it is more than satisfactory.

> Source management is not a "sexy" area unlike stuff like Gnome et al.
> Problems in the non-sexy space either don't get solved or get solved
> by commercial shops.

Oh? Usually, all the great free tools, like gcc, emacs, linux etc. were
what I'd consider the non-sexy comparment. What the free software niche
is most commonly criticized for, is lack of fancy GUIs and animated
paperclips etc.

IME, people tend to write software they need, not software that markets
well. That Linux also is becoming a marketing success, is more an
accident than design, IMHO.

~kzm
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants

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