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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by threeseed on Thursday April 11, 2019 @05:42AM (#19632469)
Since when was software development about who wrote the most code or did the most commits.

Do people like Linus deserve less credit now that he isn't the leader on the commit scoreboard ?

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Re:Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first bla... by pbhjpbhj on Thursday April 11, 2019 @07:09AM (#19633015)
Linus wrote the most code to start the project though, that doesn't seem a good example.
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