The BitKeeper Example: A Bad Development Model

Posted by dave on Apr 13, 2005 4:26 PM EDT
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To say one could see a train wreck coming from hundreds of miles away when the Linux kernel development process switched to using BitKeeper to manage development is to make an understatement of the largest kind. The idea that the best known Free Software kernel would be developed with the aid of a non-Free development tool just seemed peculiar at best and dangerous at worst. OfB's Timothy R. Butler asserts that the moral of this story is one that every business ought to pay attention to.

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What a bizarre article... dinotrac 5 1,495 Apr 14, 2005 8:34 AM

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