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Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of
	BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers
From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
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On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 18:01, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Use is another way of advocacy.  When you start using something, you get
> used to it, 

Sure. 

> and when you talk to others, you end up advocating it because
> it's what you're used to, and probably other options aren't as good (to you).

There is a difference between advocating something personally, and
advocating it in one's official capacity as the maintainer of a
project.  It is the latter "official" sense which the petition is
against.

> IIRC, bitkeeper, is open source.  It just doesn't have a free license.  I
> could be wrong(I haven't checked).  If I am, someone will say so...

You are wrong.

http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/user/x/i/xiphmont/Public/critique.html

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