I'm not entirely sure he would disagree with with what he said here. He seems to be trying to convince people to come at the problem of content management from a different perspective, and to abandon the intellectual baggage of CVS, rather than to insinuate that they should replace EXT* with git, or that they should develop an actual FS.
If what you say is true, it seems more likely that people misunderstood the original statement and carried that into the future, where the Go people seemed very serious about it being a systems language.
Anyway, that was just an example. Generally, what gets written about something that is still new is what will stick in people's head for quite a long time.
I believe it's like when you hear a song that's been recorded by more than one artist: the first arrangement you hear is often the one you will end up liking the most. When you'll hear another arrangement, odds are good you won't like it as much as you like the first.
I'm not entirely sure he would disagree with with what he said here. He seems to be trying to convince people to come at the problem of content management from a different perspective, and to abandon the intellectual baggage of CVS, rather than to insinuate that they should replace EXT* with git, or that they should develop an actual FS.
If what you say is true, it seems more likely that people misunderstood the original statement and carried that into the future, where the Go people seemed very serious about it being a systems language.