Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers
To: bernstein.46@osu.edu (michael bernstein)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:21:14 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: akpm@zip.com.au (Andrew Morton), hozer@drgw.net (Troy Benjegerdes),
        pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek), kentborg@borg.org (Kent Borg),
        opensource-admin@cis.ohio-state.edu (The Open Source Club at The Ohio
	State University),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensource@cis.ohio-state.edu,
        lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
In-Reply-To: <10B32CBD-320F-11D6-BAF0-003065C60BC2@osu.edu> from "michael bernstein" at Mar 07, 2002 04:05:33 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> 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 

Thats their planning. Some of them made poor business decisions, some of
them joined the wrong companies. If you think that being poor and suffering
are good for the soul there are a wide collection of religious orders to
choose from most of whom are full of people doing a lot more useful things
that whining on a mailing list

> it and stop compromising your ideals for money.  Also, before you can 

I have a better idea - its called keeping your ideals and making some
money 8) I've done that in the open source world both before and as part
of Red Hat. 

I've also had long talks with Larry and I agree with him about the BK stuff.
There are certain places where open source does not work well for business
models - Bitkeeper is IMHO -not-  commodity [Yet...]

Alan
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