[ox] Linus said: I won't
- From: "Karl Dietz" <karl.dietz online.de>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:35:51 +0100
just read...
But why did a Finnish student succeed, where a full grown project
such as GNU did not had success? The answer is not so obvious
and simple: The reason was the different development model.
Stallman and the GNU people followed the classical conception
that a complex program like a Kernel could only be developed by a
small sworn team, since otherwise overview and control would be
lost. This view was intuitively placed "on the head" by Torvalds. A
window from the Tanenbaum Torvalds debate entered history in the
meantime clarifies that. Tanenbaum writes: »I think co-ordinating
1000 prima donnas living all over the world will be as easy as
herding cats... If Linus wants to keep control of the official version,
and a group of eager beavers want to go off in a different direction,
the same problem arises. (...) Anyone who says you can have a lot
of widely dispersed people hack away on a complicated piece of
code and avoid total anarchy has never managed a software
project.« Torvalds answers: »Just so that nobody takes his guess
for the full thruth, here's my standing on 'keeping control', in 2
words (three?): I won't.«
aus
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