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   D to Salvador Mirzo   
   Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope    
   21 Feb 25 10:29:14   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   >> This is the truth. I'm a contrarian kind of guy, so when the world   
   >> goes git, I go fossil. ;) Jokes aside, I like the concept of one   
   >> binary and how it works for my own personal use case.   
   >   
   > I went fossil when I had to teach a class.  I thought git was more   
   > complicated than fossil.  But it turns out that fossil was seen as   
   > crazily complicated by nearly all students (anyway).  I think fossil is   
   > just fine, though I confess I prefer the file system over a database.   
      
   This is very interesting! What was it that the student thought was crazy   
   complicated compared with git?   
      
   I have taught classes with git (basics) and at the end of the day, regardless   
   of   
   if you use git or fossil, it just requires a few simple commands to get started   
   at the basic level (we were not discussing rebasing and huge software   
   projects).   
      
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