Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 05:20:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 05:20:16 -0500 Received: from smtp4.vol.cz ([195.250.128.43]:40198 "EHLO majordomo.vol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 05:20:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:13:05 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Larry McVoy , Kent Borg , Troy Benjegerdes , The Open Source Club at The Ohio State University , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensource@cis.ohio-state.edu Subject: Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers Message-ID: <20020306221305.GA370@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020305165233.A28212@fireball.zosima.org> <20020305163809.D1682@altus.drgw.net> <20020305165123.V12235@work.bitmover.com> <20020306095434.B6599@borg.org> <20020306085646.F15303@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020306085646.F15303@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > I also dislike the irony of BK being proprietary. Sure, they might > > have an enlightened and generous attitude not, but PGP used to be > > free, then it became kinda free and then it became orphaned. Luckily > > GPG came along, luckily PGP didn't have a monoploy on our history. > > PGP didn't have a business model, we do, and part of our business model > is to give it away to some of the world. It's a good business model, > BK is dramatically better because the PPC team used it and Cort went > through all sorts of stuff as BK improved. BK would easily be a > year So you basically give bk for free because it is good for you. What if it will stop being good for you ten years from now? Also it would be nice to apt-get install bk, but your license probably means we'll not see it in debian any time soon. (Should check, but do other vendors distribute bk?) Pavel -- (about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S. no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa - 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/