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Open source enthusiasts are by definition a passionate bunch, with no quarter given or expected in the numerous chat rooms devoted to community-developed software. But even the most furious flaming ...

"The adoption of Bitkeeper transformed the way kernel development was done," Jonathan Corbet from LWN.net commented in a subsequent presentation. Reflecting the continuing heat over the issue in the ...

Open source developers, as you might expect, typically use free compilers, editors, and other tools to build their software. But three years ago Linux creator Linus Torvalds began using a proprietary, ...

BitKeeper was a proprietary tool that Linux creator Linus Torvalds started using in 2002, simply because there were no decent systems to manage the kernel project. At that time McVoy had two versions ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. At least one open source software project is still using the proprietary BitKeeper source code management system, after it went ...

A number of open-source software projects will have to decide before the end of the month whether they want to continue using the proprietary source code management system, BitKeeper. The issue ...