Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:57:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:56:58 -0500 Received: from userk185.dsl.pipex.com ([62.188.58.185]:52970 "EHLO userk185.dsl.pipex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:56:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 07:56:47 +0000 From: Sean Hunter To: Stephen Samuel Cc: "Matthew D. Pitts" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff V. Merkey" Subject: Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of BitKeeper by Linux Maintainers Message-ID: <20020308075647.GA13736@uncarved.com> Mail-Followup-To: Sean Hunter , Stephen Samuel , "Matthew D. Pitts" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jeff V. Merkey" In-Reply-To: <20020305165233.A28212@fireball.zosima.org> <20020305154147.A6211@vger.timpanogas.org> <3C8554F4.9000403@bcgreen.com> <004301c1c4a6$ab218340$b0d3fea9@pcs686> <3C881649.2030000@bcgreen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C881649.2030000@bcgreen.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:39:21PM -0800, Stephen Samuel wrote: >=20 > note: this solution DOES NOT PRECLUDE YOU (or anybody else) FROM > USING BITKEEPER (or any other proprietary solution) in the privacy of > your office and/or home -- even if you want to do Linux development > with it. It's simply about what occurs in the OFFICIAL Linux kernel > code tree, which probably has a reasonably high proportion of people > who are both politically and financially sensitive to the idea of > being almost required to use an closed source product to work on > their open source 'baby'. >=20 You left off: We support your right to have babies, even though you can't have=20 babies, which is nobodies fault, not even Larry McVoy's. Thanks for giving everyone your permission to use bitkeeper in the privacy = of their own home. Its nice to know you think anyone gives a fuck about your opinion. Now kindly sod off and stop wasting everybodies time. Sean --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8iG6+AgJf0xrWsZwRAv3CAJ9jcAbRAOMQZmFdgu/OH+kR1h7OPACgkXvA 670On2JLq9SrI8wdJSQj554= =B2rI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy-- - 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/