Havoc Pennington :

The obvious reply is that most people don't have commit access. But ifsomeone's doing any kind of significant work, I think they should. Andfor my projects I've essentially always given out access as soon assomeone did any kind of largish patch or frequency of patches.

My reply to Havoc is 'what about before then?'

The advantage of distributed version control systems is that theyempower people to use version control right from the very start ofworking on your program,

A common meme among geeks is that Google's purchase of YouTube for $1.6billion shows that Google has tipped over into being a profligate,dot-com style company with more money than common sense that's makingstupid acquisitions. I disagree:

• it's not as if Google wasn't already active in the area; Google Videois living (for the moment) proof otherwise. Google thought the areawas interesting well before YouTube was a runaway success.
• given that this was an all-