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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove Bitkeeper documentation from Linux tree
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:05:52 +0200
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On Saturday 20 April 2002 18:51, you wrote:
> The fact that some developers use bitkeeper has no effect on other 
> developers.

On the contrary, I think it has divided the kernel developers firmly into
two classes: the "ins" and the "outs".

> Well ok, it means that the bk using developers can work faster 
> but that is not at issue here...

Oh I don't disagree at all.  Bitkeeper is a big improvement over what
existed before.  But it is proprietary.  Which other tool in the tool chain
is proprietary?

Heck, it's not even that proprietary.  As far as I know I can still download
the source.  But... looking at those files sitting in the Documentation
directory, it looks to me like a big old Marlbourough[TM] ad.

> I don't see why there should be any kind of split or anything like that. 
> Everything continues as before. It's just that some developers now have a 
> much easier life...

And some have a more difficult one.  So it goes.

-- 
Daniel
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