Friend who is not a software person sent me this tweet, which amused me as it did them. They asked if “runk” was real, which I assume not.

But what are some good examples of real ones like this? xz became famous for the hack of course, so i then read a bit about how important this compression algorithm is/was.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    And it all happened because botbicket decided to become greedy, to which Linus responded with taking a month break from Linux to make his own basic versioning tool, and here we are.

    Without bitbuckets decisions, wer all still be stuck with SVn shudder

    • mke@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Not necessarily! Maybe we would live in a world of mercurial, or even some other alternative.

      And it wasn’t bitbucket (botbicket?), it was BitKeeper, which gave the Kernel folks a license to use BK, but with some restrictions. Among those was a “no reverse engineering” clause, which is what eventually lead to the revoking of that license—lots of interesting articles on this!—frustrating Linus for a few weeks, and finally the start of Git.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Minor correction, it was Bitkeeper/BitMover - not Bitbucket. They were proprietary software linux used w/ a community license, and they later removed that free tier.