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by tanzam75 4833 days ago
> Or something, I don't know. Linus says it best though:

That's a very interesting read, especially with Microsoft's recent adoption of Git in its development tools. (Visual Studio and Team Foundation)

After all, Git was started by Linus, and even LibGit2 (which Microsoft is using) includes some of his original code. So in effect, Microsoft is now shipping code written by Linus. But then, Linus is also shipping code written by Microsoft. So they're even.

When you ignore the ideology and concentrate on engineering, good things can happen.