Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S310220AbSCGWTS>; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:19:18 -0500
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S310456AbSCGWS6>; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:18:58 -0500
Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:38405 "HELO
	netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id <S292631AbSCGWS4>;
	Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:18:56 -0500
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 19:17:48 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com
To: michael bernstein <bernstein.46@osu.edu>
Cc: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
        Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
        Kent Borg <kentborg@borg.org>,
        The Open Source Club at The Ohio State University 
	<opensource-admin@cis.ohio-state.edu>,
        <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <opensource@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of
 BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers
In-Reply-To: <10B32CBD-320F-11D6-BAF0-003065C60BC2@osu.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0203071915350.2181-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org
X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, michael bernstein wrote:

> 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.

> Serve others, not yourself.

Larry is doing us all a service by getting bitkeeper the
funding it needs to improve at the rate it has.

If the program had to survive as an open source program
without several people working on it full-time, I bet
many of the boring but necessary tasks still wouldn't
have been done ...

Source control just isn't one of those sexy things that
everybody wants to work on and on top of that it's deep
magic most people (especially me) can't figure out. ;)

regards,

Rik
-- 
<insert bitkeeper endorsement here>

http://www.surriel.com/		http://distro.conectiva.com/

-
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/