> Craig <netburgher@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in
> <news:Lllog.109614$H71.6708@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>:
>
>
>>An example of a new version control system is subversion
>>(subversion.tigris.org/) This is open source that is designed to
>>replace CVS. It was launched by Linus Torvald after years of
>>using CVS (a closed-source product) for his Linux kernel
>>development.
>
>
> CVS is open source software -- the license is the GNU GPL.
>
> Torvalds was using the closed-source BitKeeper. He had to drop
> BitKeeper after a kernel developer was accused of reverse engineering
> it while working on a replacement for it -- the BitKeeper folks
> withdrew permission for kernel hackers to use it free of charge.
>
> He never used Subversion. The project he started to replace BitKeeper,
> and which he's now using, is called Git. <http://git.or.cz/>
>
Thanks for the correction, Q. My bad.
Fukushiro;
/Three/ examples of open source version control!
~CVS (but I guess you already know about that)
~Subversion &
~Git