On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:26:56AM -0400,
Brennan Stewart <brennan@ideahamster.org> wrote
a message of 37 lines which said:
> Sample list (just a few from my own)
* Freeness of the code (which is much more important than price:
switching tools is *hard* because of the lack of standards, so a small
price at the beginning can lock you for a long time).
* Ability to work nicely with people who edit text files: the tool
should be able to *read* text files and to write them properly
(i.e. without deleting the comments or introducing gratuitous
presentation changes, which would confuse the version control system).
