Linus Torvalds has solved the problem of not being able to continue with the proprietary BitKeeper software he used to manage Linux kernel development without supporting his colleague Andrew Tridgell's efforts to reverse-engineer a comaptible open source alternative: he's invented his own system, amusingly called Git.
eWeek talked to Torvalds, who explains what Git is about here.
If you have been following this spat for the past couple of weeks, I wonder if it has made you think worse of the saintly Torvalds? It's certainly not obvious why Tridgell's reverse-engineering of Microsoft protocols for Samba should be good while doing it for BitKeeper's is bad: it just looks like hypocrisy.
Andrew Orlowski, who has been covering the story in The Register, quotes open source guru Bruce Perens here as saying: "There are times when Linus Torvalds can be a real idiot, and this is one of these times."
Open source makes you free, of course. Free enough not to switch to Git?
