GitHub developer Scott Chacon on the question "SVN or Git?"
SVN. I’m a huge fan of slow development, waiting twenty minutes for commands to run, useless merge functionality and single points of failure. Why would anyone want cheap branching and easy merging when you can bill 5 hours for each merge instead? Those Git people are just crazy. If my commits took 1/10 of a second instead of 5 minutes, when would I ever find the time to read Hacker News?
Full interview. Especially poignant (to me) this week as I get to hit the repo via crappy residential broadband and crappy enterprise vpn.