Linus' Other Gift to the World 177
Glyn Moody writes "Linus is widely recognised for initiating two major developments: Linux and Git (it's an interesting discussion which of the two in the long term will be regarded as more important). But there's a third, which people tend to overlook: he also pioneered the key ideas behind what later came to be called open innovation. As more and more companies open up to embrace customer-generated ideas, and the idea spreads to other areas like open government, perhaps it's time to add open innovation to the list of Linus' achievements."
Re:I love git!! (Score:4, Informative)
I think the better comment is "DCVS is super amazing!!"
Many people forget that there ware 2 other decent implementations of distributed source control out there (Mercurial and Bazaar), both of which function rather closely to Git. Though, from what I've seen, Git is currently the fastest and most efficient when it comes to processing various commands, but they all do everything rather quickly.
Git I would say is popular in the open source world for 2 reasons: Linus uses it and Github. My gripes still stand with it requiring Cygwin on Windows and its weird terminology (which is backwards from many of its predecessors). It's a great tool and I'm happy that its pushing people away from CVS and SVN, but it's not perfect and it's not the only DVCS on the block.
Re:Linux vs Git? (Score:4, Informative)
There is nothing special about Linux, apart from being a successful FLOSS operating system.
There were no great genius work from Linus there, he "just" wrote an ordinary OS and made the source public.
Git, in the other hand, is a work of a genius. It's not merely one more version control system.
It made branching, merging and atomic commits so acessible that it changed the way people code.
ps: no idea why you were modded down, it was a completely reasonable question.