Apparently it takes $17M and a whole team full of people to do what one guy with a chip on his shoulder could do for free.

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bee_rider 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On one hand that’s true. On the other, the “one guy” there is, like, the guy who does impressive projects “just as a hobby.”

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reverius42 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, it's really burying the lede to call Linus Torvalds "one guy with a chip on his shoulder".

"Why fund $17M towards development of an operating system, when Linux was made by one guy with a chip on his shoulder?"

	▲	Orygin 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		While he's technically excellent (or so it seems on the outside) he's still just, like, a guy

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Defletter 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Uhh, to be fair, if the goal was only to recreate git from 2005, it probably wouldn't cost $17M. I'd hazard a guess that they're recreating modern git and the emergent stuff like issues, PRs, projects, etc. I've also heard that the core devs for git are essentially paid a salary to maintain git.

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altmanaltman 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Literally true if it's that one guy you're talking about.

Also, you should hear Linus talk about building git himself, what he built wasn't what you know as git today. It didn't even have the commands like git pull, git commit etc until he handed development over.

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irjustin 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not sure if I should take these comments seriously or as a joke...