Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:54:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:54:17 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:40461 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:53:56 -0500 Message-ID: <3C854C94.8A2C72A4@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:54:12 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Colin Walters CC: "Jeff V. Merkey" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensource@cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement ofBitKeeper by Linux Maintainers In-Reply-To: <20020305165233.A28212@fireball.zosima.org> <20020305154147.A6211@vger.timpanogas.org> <1015368059.25841.12.camel@space-ghost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Colin Walters wrote: > You apparently missed the fact that the the petition was not against the > *use* of proprietary software at all. In fact, we explicitly mentioned > that everyone is free to make that choice individually. What the > petition is against is the *advocacy* of the proprietary BitKeeper > software by the kernel maintainers. How do they have any business telling me what to advocate? That doesn't sound like free speech nor free thought to me. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft | Choose life. - 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/