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by ramses0 5050 days ago
I ran into McVoy on reddit a few years ago. He seemed totally different than the "scary evil public persona" that has been bandied about...

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9zdlf/git_and_m...

...humble, concerned, and proud of how they've advanced the "state of the art" and his company's contributions to modern version control.

"""Imagine how I'd feel if Linus used BK for years and when moving off he made a centralized VCS."""
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luckydude 5050 days ago
Well, to be fair to the people pushing the "scary evil public persona", I don't come across well in email. Never have.

I'm better in person; had a meeting with a guy from Germany a couple of years back who worked up the courage to invite himself to our offices in the south bay and after a couple of beers he made some comment like "wow, you're nothing like what I expected, you're actually a nice guy".

I get that a lot. It's a "gift" :)

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ramses0 5050 days ago
Good to see you again! Hopefully business is still going well for you, although I imagine GitHub enterprise is becoming a strong competitor (and noticeably Git is left off the comparisons page?).

From what I can tell maybe age and experience have mellowed you out your email tone a bit... pretty soon you'll turn into Ned from The Simpsons. ;-)

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luckydude 5050 days ago
Well, our website sucks eggs. I used to maintain it, then we hired a supposed sales/marketing guy and he stripped out all the screenshots and removed anything that actually gave you information and replaced it with a bunch of gobbly gook that is supposed to resonate with the fully buzz word enabled manager types. And then he left "to spend time with his family" :)

I've been too disgusted with the result to actually fix it but it clearly needs some lovin. I don't suppose anybody wants to tackle marketing BitKeeper? Not a fun job given that we annoyed the open source crowd but we do have some neat technology.

Github is in a different space, we don't see them much. We do see git of course, but lucky for us some of the design decisions in git left us some advantages (see the facebook thread about 6 months ago).

I dunno about Ned, isn't he the religious guy? I'm more the grumpy old man :)

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