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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:05:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers
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To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
From: michael bernstein <bernstein.46@osu.edu>
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On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:15 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:

>   If I had stayed at Cobalt and
> cashed out my millions, BitKeeper would be open source.  But I didn't.
> So it isn't.  Get over it.  It can help now, we're trying to help now,
> we make it easy to get out of BK, so if/when a better open source answer
> arrives, you can get out.  What more can you possibly ask for?  I'm 
> giving
> you an answer which helps, with no lock in, and the most extensive set 
> of
> tools designed to make it so you can get out with all of your data 
> intact.
> And you say you are insulted.  I'm not sure it is you who should be 
> insulted.
>

Last time I checked, it didn't matter if a person had "cashed out their 
millions" for a program to go opensource.  So fucking what.  I'm a poor 
college student, as many are, and yet, I still see a lot of useful 
programs coming out.  The Gimp, for one, was written by students at 
Berkeley.  Last time I checked, no one was making money off of 
enlightenment, and they are all still poor.  Stop fucking whining about 
it and stop compromising your ideals for money.  Also, before you can 
say it, yes you've stated your ideals by saying that it WOULD have been 
opensource if you had money.  Well that means you believe in opensource 
somewhat at least.  Get over the money issue though.  There are a lot of 
people who could benefit from bitkeeper being opensourced, so why not go 
and do it?

Serve others, not yourself.

Michael Bernstein
bernstein.46@osu.edu

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