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The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around who can make changes. BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

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Linus Torvalds
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 28
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