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From: dyson@inuxs.inh.att.com (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
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In article <DJ1B47.83F@kroete2.freinet.de>,
Erik Corry <erik@kroete2.freinet.de> wrote:
>John S. Dyson (root@dyson.iquest.net) wrote:
>: Linus owns Linux and through his generosity, you can use it -- isn't
>: that nice of him?.
>
>I'm wondering what you mean by this. Linus does not own all the copyright
>in the Linux kernel, and certainly not in a complete Linux system. He
>has no way of regretting his generosity and withdrawing permission to
>use old versions. He couldn't even do it for future versions without
>replacing vast amounts of code written by others, or getting their
>permission.
>
I retracted the statement about Linus having complete ownership of Linux,
however he still calls the shots, and this discussion has been pretty much
about the "closedness" of the FreeBSD development.  It appears to me that
the Linux kernel is de-facto being controlled by one person, not so at all
on FreeBSD.  We do have a chief architect, but he mostly acts as a tie
breaker.  So, I would sure like to hear about the Linux CVS tree and
how concurrent development is handled.  How does the Linux development
resolve differences given multiple developers making changes to the tree?

At least it appears that FreeBSD has admitted to a long history of having
a concurrent version control system -- is there a secret one somewhere in
Linux, or is it just not open, and a single developer maintains the tree???

John
dyson@freebsd.org