Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

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On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly.

I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that
the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the
programming/compsci/compeng world was figuring out how to make it
possible for hundreds of people to work on the same code base without
stepping all over each other.

I'm not sure if I agree with that being his *only* contribution, but it
sure is a good one nonetheless.

I guess it depends on your definition of "notable". For the longest
time, he never use a vcs, and so *lots* of patches got lost.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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