Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:22:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:22:49 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:29451 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:22:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 00:22:41 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Pavel Machek Cc: Larry McVoy , kernel list Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues Message-ID: <20020319002241.K17410@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Pavel Machek , Larry McVoy , kernel list In-Reply-To: <20020318212617.GA498@elf.ucw.cz> <20020318144255.Y10086@work.bitmover.com> <20020318231427.GF1740@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:14:28AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Pavel, the problem here is your fundamental distrust. > By giving me binary-only installer you ask me to trust you. You ask me > to trust you without good reason [it only generates .tar.gz and > shellscript, why should it be binary? Was not shar designed to handle > that?], and that's pretty suspect. Bitmover doing anything remotely suspect in an executable installer would be commercial suicide, do you distrust realplayer too? did you distrust early netscape before they released source? yada yada countless other programs.. If your distrust of commercial organisations providing binaries is so great, you know where objdump, strace and friends are. -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs - 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/