Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:34:33 -0500
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On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 01:49 -0500, Sean wrote:
> The affects of many top level folks using a non free system is felt all
> the way down the food-chain.  If the top tier would agree to use a free
> SCM system then we could build bridges and offer the data in the preferred
> format to _everyone_  (arch, subversion, patch, BK, etc).  But because BK
> is used at the top, many useful options are cut off.   It's a rather large
> "hidden" cost of BK adoption as the primary tool at the top.

If you don't like it you are free to write a better SCM that is free
software.  I am sure if you brought Linus a free software SCM that's as
good as BK he would use it.  Bitching about it on LKML will not get you
any closer to having said SCM.

Lee

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