Re: cvs-nserver and latest CVS advisory

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, August 9, 2000 at 11:18:56 (-0600), Tobias Weingartner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: cvs-nserver and latest CVS advisory
>
> Then you are screwed.  CVS was never meant to be used in this fashion.  If you
> read the original paper, I believe that it basically says that in a cooperative
> environment, CVS works well.  If you have a competitive environment, where
> users will try to torpedo other projects, then all bets are off.

Now there's a topic for discussion and research!

How do you foster productivity in a competitive environment where you
don't have anything as powerful as an employment contract to hold over
your developer's heads?

On the other hand do you really want to prevent such users from using
underhanded techniques against their competitors, or is this simply
another evolutionary mechanism that'll weed out the weak and ill
prepared from the crowd?  Eg. anyone stupid enough to use cvspserver
will be taken down in the first week and the survivors will win the
contest!   :-)

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