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Re:Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (2005) by kinghajj on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:05PM (#9264747)
> It's that Tridgell reverse-engineered the Bitkeeper protocol

I always thought it was weird how telnetting into a port and typing "help" was considered "reverse engineering".

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Re:Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (2005) by jordigh on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @02:11PM (#9264796)
Hm, it was more than that. It involved inspecting network packets.

What I found weird is how Linus blamed Tridgell for the reverse engineering:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tri...

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Re:Linus Torvalds's first public mention of git (2005) by grover_hartmann on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @06:56PM (#9266612)
I also find that weird.

Could someone elaborate more on this?

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