Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:47:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:47:26 -0500 Received: from mail.cert.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.16.17]:65228 "HELO Mail.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 17:45:09 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers In-Reply-To: <20020307121509.I20271@work.bitmover.com> <10B32CBD-320F-11D6-BAF0-003065C60BC2@osu.edu> <20020307130751.D1657@work.bitmover.com> <200203072124.g27LObt02351@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> From: Florian Weimer Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:44:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200203072124.g27LObt02351@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (Richard Gooch's message of "Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:24:37 -0700") Message-ID: <87lmd4ov5b.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> Lines: 18 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 Richard Gooch writes: > Larry McVoy writes: >> > I'm a poor college student >> >> And I have two kids on their way to college. Grow up. > > And if you want to do Open Source development using BK, Larry's not > even asking for your money. Using BitKeeper might break the way security issues are currently handled by distributors of the GNU/Linux system, due to the open logging feature. -- 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/