Google defends open source from ‘poisonous people’
Google defends open source from ‘poisonous people’
One day, a coder came along and wrote one. But he insisted on tagging the source code with his John Hancock. And that was against the rules. Subversion’s founders said that name tags would undermine collaboration.
When the founders asked the coder to remove his name, he refused, threatening to leave the project and take his date parser with him. It was a good date parser - just want the project needed - but the founders stood their ground.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/30/google_open_source_talk/
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