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> It's that Tridgell reverse-engineered the Bitkeeper protocol

I always thought it was weird how telnetting into a port and typing "help" was considered "reverse engineering".

Hm, it was more than that. It involved inspecting network packets.

What I found weird is how Linus blamed Tridgell for the reverse engineering:

I also find that weird.

Could someone elaborate more on this?