Leaving an Open Sour(ce) Taste...

I've got to be frank about something, the current war of words between some of the OSS movements notables is just depressing. If you haven't read up, Linus Torvalds recently changed the SCM used to manage kernel development from BitKeeper to Git. Some of this was prompted after Andrew Tridgell (of Samba fame) began discussing how he had begun to reverse engineer BitKeeper.

Having read articles from both camps I've come to the conclusion that nobody was right in this war. (no surprise right?) I agree that Linus probably went a tad overboard in openly berating Tridgell over his actions. At the same time I can concede that the good faith, working agreement between the OSS heads and BitKeeper was that no OSS project would attempt to directly replace it. Now granted, in a forward thinking sense this probably wasn't the best choice the OSS higher ups could have made but that's water the under the bridge. Was Tridgell wrong to reverse engineer BitKeeper thereby violating their working agreement? Probably, but that's his strength in the industry (See Samba).

While I like diversity as much as any OSS/FSF community member, even I acknowledge that sometimes open source isn't the best fit for _everything_ but it does a darn good job. It is unfortunate that this schism is hitting at a time when development is at an all time high. My hope is that this does not fracture heavily the OSS/FSF community any further. Thoughts?

-Note that I use just about everything, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Mac OS X (10.3 atm), Windows XP, Windows 2000