Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262267AbVBKQSs (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262268AbVBKQSs (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:48 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:33951 "EHLO mail.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262267AbVBKQSp (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:18:44 -0800 To: Alexandre Oliva , Stelian Pop , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto Message-ID: <20050211161844.GA17175@bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: lm@bitmover.com, Alexandre Oliva , Stelian Pop , Francois Romieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050205193848.GH5028@deep-space-9.dsnet> <20050205233841.GA20875@bitmover.com> <20050208154343.GH3537@crusoe.alcove-fr> <20050208155845.GB14505@bitmover.com> <20050209155113.GA10659@bitmover.com> <20050210211700.GA26361@bitmover.com> <20050211154842.GA16507@bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050211154842.GA16507@bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2066 Lines: 45 The mails have started flowing in saying "I don't agree with Alexandre and please don't pull the plug" so a point of clarification. We have no intention of shutting down the BK free product. We are aware that there are 10's of thousands of developers in the open source world who do not agree with Alexandre's narrow view of things. You're fine, we're not taking BK away. I only trying to get Alexandre to see that his definition of "help" is somewhat narrow-minded. Cheers, --lm On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:48:42AM -0800, lm wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:30:22PM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > Can you offer any plausible explanation other than a good faith desire > > > to help the open source community, albeit in a non-traditional way? > > > > I don't see what you've done as helping the open source community. > > So in your mind, aiding the open source community is done only through > creating more open source. Directly. The fact that open source projects > which use BK are more productive than if they were not using BK is > irrelevant and of no value, correct? The fact that they are creating > more open source more quickly because of their use of BK is irrelevant > and of no value, correct? > > In that case, get the free BK users to agree with you and we'll pull the > plug on free BK. The point of giving away BK for free is to help you. > If you have consensus that it isn't helping then we'll shut it down. > > On the other hand, if you can't achieve that consensus then perhaps you > might consider broadening your definition of "help" to include something > other than "more GPLed source". > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/