Re: Hushing up Sibelius news?

[Adam Spiers]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
>>
>> It can go horribly wrong, yes, but it doesn't have to.  Git for
>> example was a from-scratch attempt at DVCS -- if Linus Torvalds had
>> started from e.g. Arch or Darcs, it's unlikely that we'd have had the
>> innovative DVCS that we see today.
>
> And: git was ready-to-run within two weeks.  Admittedly this is
> extremely fast coding :-)

Depends on what you mean by ready to run ;-)  Personally I didn't find
it ready until at least a year later.  But we are talking about a
rather special programmer here too ;-)