Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:43:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:42:49 -0500 Received: from mail.cert.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.16.17]:62924 "HELO Mail.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:42:39 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers 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> <20020306221305.GA370@elf.ucw.cz> <20020307101701.S1682@altus.drgw.net> From: Florian Weimer Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:42:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020307101701.S1682@altus.drgw.net> (Troy Benjegerdes's message of "Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:17:01 -0600") Message-ID: <87pu2gov9i.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Troy Benjegerdes writes: > I'd really like everyone that's bitching about BK to shut the hell up and > go work on some scripts to allow a maintainer to easily manage a > BK<->$OTHER_SCM gateway. How do you know that BitMover isn't trying to patent aspects of BitKeeper which prevents you from writing such gateways? They're already aiming at a patent for some of there merging algorithms, IIRC. -- Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898 - 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/