Mark Wallace wrote:

And there you have it. Microsoft will be able to use -- and sell/make a profit from -- all the innovative work put out by open source developers, without having to pay then a penny for it.

GPL pretty much allows them to do that anyway - I guess it's just not 'cool' for them to admit to using GPL'd software.

"The path to complete understanding starts by acknowledging your own ignorance"

Functionally, subversion is a hybrid of CVS and ClearCase (minus the fancy gui for version trees). It's in a similar league to perforce without the pricetag :~ There are also some extension tools to make it exceptionally easy to use, TortoiseSVN and kdesvn.