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From: jbradford@dial.pipex.com
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Subject: Off topic, bandwidth wasting, waffle about Bit Keeper
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:28:16 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <1034237391.23997.16.camel@forge> from "Henning Schmiedehausen" at Oct 10, 2002 10:09:50 AM
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The solution, as I see it, is to wait for a couple of years until
Larry drops his asking price of $12,000,000 to GPL it, and then ask a
few of the large Linux distros to help raise that money.

Think about it - there will be more competition against BK in a couple
of years time, so GPLing it to get more market share would make
sense.  That way it could compete against, E.G. Subversion, if
Subversion becomes a viable competitor.

Larry - what are your thoughts on this?

John.
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