Comment by sunshowers 4 days ago I do not think Linus has ever claimed that Git wasn't following in the footsteps of those systems. 17 comments sunshowers Reply InsideOutSanta 4 days ago Neither has Anthropic. They mention Sapling as an inspiration. sunshowers 4 days ago Scion is far more similar to Mononoke than Git is to BitKeeper. kccqzy 4 days ago GNU is extremely similar to the proprietary Unix flavors that came before it. Is that a problem? 3 replies → nomel 4 days ago It's totally wild seeing entities being criticized for writing software based on/very similar to other open source software. Ffs, this used to be what open source software was about. It was actually the fucking point [1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement 8 replies → thewhitetulip 4 days ago Did Linus also have access to the BitKeeper source code?
InsideOutSanta 4 days ago Neither has Anthropic. They mention Sapling as an inspiration. sunshowers 4 days ago Scion is far more similar to Mononoke than Git is to BitKeeper. kccqzy 4 days ago GNU is extremely similar to the proprietary Unix flavors that came before it. Is that a problem? 3 replies → nomel 4 days ago It's totally wild seeing entities being criticized for writing software based on/very similar to other open source software. Ffs, this used to be what open source software was about. It was actually the fucking point [1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement 8 replies →
sunshowers 4 days ago Scion is far more similar to Mononoke than Git is to BitKeeper. kccqzy 4 days ago GNU is extremely similar to the proprietary Unix flavors that came before it. Is that a problem? 3 replies → nomel 4 days ago It's totally wild seeing entities being criticized for writing software based on/very similar to other open source software. Ffs, this used to be what open source software was about. It was actually the fucking point [1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement 8 replies →
kccqzy 4 days ago GNU is extremely similar to the proprietary Unix flavors that came before it. Is that a problem? 3 replies →
nomel 4 days ago It's totally wild seeing entities being criticized for writing software based on/very similar to other open source software. Ffs, this used to be what open source software was about. It was actually the fucking point [1].[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement 8 replies →
Neither has Anthropic. They mention Sapling as an inspiration.
Scion is far more similar to Mononoke than Git is to BitKeeper.
GNU is extremely similar to the proprietary Unix flavors that came before it. Is that a problem?
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It's totally wild seeing entities being criticized for writing software based on/very similar to other open source software. Ffs, this used to be what open source software was about. It was actually the fucking point [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software_movement
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Did Linus also have access to the BitKeeper source code?