demesisx

demesisx, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I like to repurpose that argument and leverage it to argue that sectors that are essential to basic human needs (food, shelter, education, healthcare, infrastructure, utilities including the internet) have no other option than to be socialized. If a sector is properly socialized, they wouldn’t even have the option of being corrupted by profit motives that seek to create artificial scarcity around and withhold goods and services that would otherwise keep a society functioning in a sustainable way.

demesisx, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Edit: my below comment was actually wrong. They actually do use git.

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Thanks for sharing. What I find most interesting is that Linus is still using the same email-based software development methods for the kernel while the rest of the software engineering world has evolved to use his other invention, git, for that. I’m kind of second-hand embarrassed for those geniuses who have yet to adopt proper version control for (what I’d argue is) the most important project in the computing world.

Here’s a far more nuanced explanation from Spore’s reply to this comment :

Git and Email are not mutually exclusive. In order to collaborate with git, you need and only need a way to send your commits to others. Commits can be formatted as plain-text files and sent through emails. That is how git has been used by its author from literally the first release of it.

demesisx, 1 year ago

Is this article (and the many sources I see confirming it) inaccurate then?

www.theregister.com/AMP/…/linux_kernel_email/

I’m happy to be wrong if you have any evidence to refute what I’ve written.

Ps. I’m talking about the kernel.

demesisx, 1 year ago

Thanks for the insight. I’ll edit my comment to point to yours.

demesisx, 1 year ago

I, for one, was quite ignorant of that fact.