Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261500AbVBNRtk (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:49:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261501AbVBNRtk (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:49:40 -0500 Received: from ipcop.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.15]:29106 "EHLO mail.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261500AbVBNRte (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:49:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:49:33 -0800 To: Russell Miller Cc: Marcin Dalecki , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed Message-ID: <20050214174932.GB8846@bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: lm@bitmover.com, Russell Miller , Marcin Dalecki , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20050214020802.GA3047@bitmover.com> <20050214154015.GA8075@bitmover.com> <3586df11f3bb037ab4b0284109ff9c0a@dalecki.de> <200502140923.03155.rmiller@duskglow.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502140923.03155.rmiller@duskglow.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: 1478 Lines: 32 On Monday 14 February 2005 09:14, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > 1. Utterly immoral. > 2. Something you are by no ways entitled to have. > > If you want to be compensated for BK then put a price tag on it. Excellent idea. At the volumes you are using it now that's $65M/year. That's what we'd charge for the same number of seats at one commercial site. If it were spread out over the thousands of sites like your usage is then it would be more, there's a lot more overhead. There are currently more than 2,200 top level domains using BK for free (where top level means my-company.com, not my-workstation.my-company.com). If someone wants to pay for it we'd be happy to negotiate a standard click-wrap style license as part of the deal. Everyone would like that much better it seems. Are you volunteering to pay? On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 09:23:03AM -0800, Russell Miller wrote: > It is certainly Larry's choice to license his software any way he chooses. > > It is my choice whether or not to use it. Yup, it is. Always has been even for the kernel because of our hard work to make sure of that. We respect your choices, please respect ours. -- --- 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/