the corner office

Somebody tried to insert a back door into the Linux kernel but didn't get very far.

Interesting point: BitKeeper, the controversial, proprietary source control management software used to manage the Linux kernel is the antithesis of the IBM-esque server-is-king all-on-one-box centralised systems a la CVS. BitKeeper is completely peer-to-peer: decentralised, distributed, with source code and changes being replicated all over the show.

It's not often I hear other technical folk talk about 'replicas' like us Notes folks do. Warms my heart...